Appositive Sentences

How does an appositive phrase function?

• renames the noun
• gives more information about the noun
• is a concise way to define a noun
• all of the above

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Is this a correctly written appositive sentence?

Mrs. Elterman, my 3rd period English teacher, teaches grammar every Tuesday.

• True

• False

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Disneyland the happiest place on Earth is my favorite holiday destination.  Where do the commas go?

• happiest, place, holiday, destination
• Disneyland, the and Earth, is
• Disneyland, the and my, favorite

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The Outsiders, a young adult novel, is one of the best books I have ever read.  Is this a correctly written appositive?

• Yes
• No

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Harold is a gifted tennis player.
Harold won four national tennis championships.  Which is the correctly written appositive?

• Harold, a gifted tennis player, won four national tennis championships.
• Harold a gifted tennis player won four national tennis championships.
• Harold won four championships and Harold is a gifted tennis play. 

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Charlie, Diane's eleven-year-old beagle, chews holes in the living room carpeting as if he were still a puppy.

• An appostive
• A simple sentence
• A compound sentence
• none of the above

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An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it.

• No, the appostive doesn't need to be near the noun
• Yes, the appositive needs to be right beside the noun

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A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire.

• The appositive phrase is at the beginning of the sentence.
• The appositive phrase is at the end of the sentence.
• The appositive phrase is in the middle of the sentence.

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CCSS.L.9-10.1B

The important point to remember is that the nonessential appositive is always separated from the rest of the sentence with comma(s).

• True
• False

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An enormous man with great strength, Henry was able to carry the entire bag of bricks by himself.

• This is a correctly written appositive.
• This is incorrectly written appositive sentence. 

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