Enhancing Writing Skills with Appositives

The video tutorial explains how to enhance simple sentences by using appositives and adding extra information. It covers the definition of appositives, which involve naming something twice, and provides examples such as 'Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, invented the Model T.' The tutorial also discusses adding extra information using 'who', 'that', and 'which', and how these can be used to provide optional details about nouns in a sentence. The use of commas to separate this additional information is emphasized, showing how it can strengthen otherwise simple sentences.

What is an appositive?

• A type of verb

• A little bit of extra information or description

• A conjunction

• A type of adjective

How is an appositive typically punctuated in a sentence?

• With semicolons

• With parentheses

• With dashes

• With commas

In the sentence 'Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company, invented the Model T,' what is the appositive?

• invented the Model T

• the founder of Ford Motor Company

• Ford Motor Company

• Henry Ford

Which of the following sentences contains an appositive?

• She went to the store.

• The cat sat on the mat.

• My friend, a talented musician, plays the guitar.

• They are reading a book.

When adding extra information about a person, which word should you start with?

• which

• who

• where

• that

In the sentence 'Georgia O'Keefe, who was a famous painter, lived in the southwest,' what is the extra information?

• who was a famous painter

• Georgia O'Keefe

• the southwest

• lived in the southwest

When adding extra information about an object, which word should you start with?

• who

• where

• that

• which

In the sentence 'The table that my uncle built sits in our dining room,' what is the extra information?

• our dining room

• that my uncle built

• sits in our dining room

• The table

Which word can be used to add extra information for both people and objects?

• where

• who

• that

• which

In the sentence 'The book, which was a bestseller, is now out of print,' what is the extra information?

• which was a bestseller

• is now out of print

• The book

• a bestseller