Appositives

Identify the non-restrictive appositive:

Jack's ice cream, a huge mound of chocolate, started to melt.

• Jack's ice cream

• started

• to melt

• a huge mound of chocolate

Lauren my sister-in-law is going to have a baby this coming May.

• non-restrictive appositive

• restrictive appositive

• non-restrictive clause

• non-restrictive participial phrase

• restrictive participial phrase

Calvin's favorite animals are sharks the largest fish in the ocean.

• non-restrictive appositive

• restrictive appositive

• restrictive clause

• non-restrictive participial phrase

• restrictive participial phrase

Identify the appositive in the following sentence: The teacher, Mrs. Smith, is very kind and helpful.

• The teacher

• Mrs. Smith

• Helpful

• Is very kind

Identify the appositive phrase in the sentence below.

The party, a celebration of my friend’s eighteenth birthday, was held at a local swimming pool.

• a local swimming pool

• The party

• a celebration of my friend’s eighteenth birthday

True or false: sentences CANNOT make sense without an appositive phrase.

• True

• False

Which of the following sentences has an appositive?

• My dog is brown.

• The horses are orange.

• Gus, Eric's black cat, slowly crept up behind the kittens.

• The fish is blue.

Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is her favorite.

What is the appositive?

• Shakespeare's play

• Hamlet

• is her favorite

Which one of the underlined words in the following sentence is an appositive?

Doesn’t your uncle Jeremy play the accordion in a band?

• uncle

• Jeremy

• accordion

• band

Identify the appositive:

My cousin, Sammy, broke his arm in the championship game last weekend.

• cousin

• Sammy

• arm

• game