Grammar Cup: Appositives!

What is an appositive phrase?

• a phrase that renames a noun and is set off from the sentence with commas

• A complete sentence w/ an AWUBIS

• A complete sentence w/ a FANBOY

• a phrase that shows a relationship between a noun and the object of the preposition.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the appositive phrase (check all that apply!): Everyone can enter the room, a large auditorium with ample space.

• Everyone

• can enter the room

• a large auditorium with ample space.

• No appostive phrase

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CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the appositive phrase (check all that apply!): The author of the poem, Jose Olivarez, visited Back of the Yards, a high school in Chicago, last year.

• Jose Olivarez

• visited Back of the Yards

• a high school in Chicago

• last year

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the appositive phrase: Virginia one of the original thirteen colonies was home to the first English settlement in North America.

• Virginia

• one of the original thirteen colonies

• was home

• first English settlement in North America.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

How would you punctuate this sentence: Virginia one of the original thirteen colonies was home to the first English settlement in North America

• Virginia, one of the original thirteen colonies was home, to the first English settlement in North America.

• Virginia one of the original thirteen colonies, was home to the first English settlement in North America.

• Virginia, one of the original thirteen colonies, was home to the first English settlement in North America.

• Virginia, one of the original thirteen colonies, was home to the first English settlement in North America

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CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.6.2A

Select the underlined word or phrase that needs to be changed to make the sentence correct: The narrator of the story, an unnamed boy works in a lighthouse.

• narrator of

• story, an

• boy works

• in a lighthouse

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Select the underlined word or phrase that needs to be changed to make the sentence correct: The lighthouse a tall stone tower, collapsed after the monster rammed it.

• lighthouse a

• tower, collapsed

• after the

• No correction needed.

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Select the underlined word or phrase that needs to be changed to make the sentence correct: A new lighthouse, a steel-reinforced concrete structure was built the next year.

• lighthouse, a

• structure was

• the next

• No correction needed.

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

Rewrite the following sentence, adding an appositive phrase to describe the subject of the sentence: In my myth, the main character beats the antagonist.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B