Appositives

Which of the following sentences, using an appositive, is correct?

• Marianne, happy to help, showed me how to bake a cake.

• Marianne happy to help showed me how to bake a cake.

• Marianne happy, to help, showed me how to bake a cake.

• Marianne, happy, to help showed me how to bake a cake.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Select the appositive or appositive phrase.

William Shakespeare, the revered English playwright, wrote plays more than four hundred years ago; his works continue to influence people around the world.

• William Shakespeare

• the revered English playwright,

• wrote plays more than four hundred years ago that

• even now,

• continue to influence people around the world

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What determines whether an appositive is non-essential?

• it is offset by commas

• it has quotations around it

• it is followed by a question mark

• it is hyphenated

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

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

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What is the function of the noun that the appositive explains?

Perry, a platypus with a fancy hat, fights crime to help the Tri-state Area.

• Subject

• Direct Object

• Predicate Nominative

• Object of the preposition

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Is this appositive restrictive or non-restrictive?

Gary Paulsen's book Hatchet is about survival.

• restrictive

• non-restrictive

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What kinds of words can appositives identify or explain?

• Nouns

• Adjectives

• Verbs

• Anything

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Identify the appositive or appositive phrase in the following sentence:

In the time of the Roman Republic, only male Roman citizens were allowed to wear the toga, a long cloth wrapped around the body.

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

Joe Biden the United States President ordered the military to shoot down the Chinese balloon once it was over the ocean.

• non-restrictive appositive

• restrictive appositive

• restrictive clause

• non-restrictive participial phrase

• restrictive participial phrase

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

WITH THAT ONE WORD MOTHER, his life changed.

• appositive

• gerund

• infinitive

• participle

• preposition

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B