Appositive Practice

What is the appositive phrase in the following:

Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance painter, was also an inventor.

• Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance painter,

• , was also an inventor.

• Leonardo da Vinci,

• , the great Renaissance painter,

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CCSS.L.6.2A

What is an appositive?

• An appositive shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence.

• An appositive is a noun or pronoun that identifies or renames another noun or pronoun.

• An appositive modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb.

• An appositive is a word used in place of a noun or another pronoun.

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CCSS.L.6.2A

True or false?

If the appositive is important or essential to the meaning of your sentence, do not use commas to off set the appositive.

• True

• False

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Exercise 1: Identifying Appositives and Appositive Phrases

Identify the Appositive Phrase in the sentence.

1. That tent over there, the large one with the orange trim, looks right for our family.

• the large one with the orange trim

• the large one

• That tent

• with the orange trim

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CCSS.L.6.2A

Exercise 1: Identifying Appositives and Appositive Phrases

Identify the Appositive Phrase in the sentence.

4. The couple named the child Miley, an old family name.

• The couple

• an old family name

• child Miley

• Miley

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Exercise 1: Identifying Appositives and Appositive Phrases

Identify the Appositive Phrase in the sentence.

5. The play, a comedy, kept us laughing all evening.

• a comedy

• The play

• laughing all evening

• all evening

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CCSS.L.6.2A

What is the purpose of an appositive?

• to complete a sentence
• to further describe a noun
• to show action
• to start a sentence

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CCSS.L.6.2A

An appositive can be set apart by 1 or 2 commas.

• Yes
• No

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CCSS.L.6.2A

Choose the appositive.
I haven't been to the new mall, but I will go on Saturday.

• mall
• but I will go
• Saturday
• no appositive

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CCSS.L.6.2A

Choose the appositive.
John, where are you moving? I am moving to the best state in America, Texas.

• John
• Texas
• America
• no appositive

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CCSS.L.6.2A