Exploring Appositives and Their Diagramming

Elisabeth O'Brien from Grammar Revolution explains appositives, which rename or provide more information about a noun. She provides examples, such as 'Victor Hugo' renaming 'author', and discusses appositive phrases like 'a French teacher'. The video also covers how to diagram appositives, showing their relationship to the nouns they rename. Additional resources for learning about appositives and sentence diagrams are mentioned.

What is the main focus of Grammar Revolution?

• Understanding science concepts

• Teaching and learning grammar the easy way

• Learning history through stories

• Teaching math easily

What does an appositive do in a sentence?

• Describes the action

• Renames or gives more information about a noun

• Connects two clauses

• Shows possession

In the sentence 'The author Victor Hugo was born in France', what is the appositive?

• Author

• Born

• Victor Hugo

• France

Which of the following is an example of an appositive phrase?

• My sister, a French teacher

• Under the table

• The quick brown fox

• Running swiftly

What are the components of an appositive phrase?

• A noun and its modifiers

• An adjective and an adverb

• A subject and a predicate

• A verb and its object

How do you diagram an appositive in a sentence?

• Highlight it in bold

• Add it in parentheses after the word it renames

• Underline it twice

• Place it in brackets before the noun

In a sentence diagram, where do you place the modifiers of an appositive?

• Next to the appositive

• Below the appositive

• Before the appositive

• Above the appositive

In the diagram of 'My sister, a French teacher, studied in France during high school', where is 'a French teacher' placed?

• In parentheses after 'sister'

• Before 'sister'

• Before 'France'

• After 'studied'

Where can you learn more about appositives and their punctuation?

• In a math textbook

• On the Grammar Revolution website

• In a history book

• On a science blog

What additional resource is suggested for learning grammar with sentence diagrams?

• Math Revolution website

• Science Revolution website

• History Revolution website

• Grammar Revolution website