Combining Sentences with Appositives

Combine the sentences by using an appositive or relative clause:

• A delicious smell filled the kitchen while the cookies baked I could smell cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove.

• A delicious smell filled the kitchen, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, while the cookies baked.

• A delicious smell, cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, filled the kitchen while the cookies baked.

• The smell was cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, it filled the kitchen while the cookies baked.

Combine the sentences by using an appositive or relative clause:

• My dad arrived at 7 o'clock, his name is Terry.

• My dad Terry arrived at 7 o'clock.

• My dad, which his name is Terry, he arrived at 7 o'clock.

• Arrived at 7 o'clock, Terry my dad.

Combine the sentences by using an appositive or relative clause:

• The oven, which is older than I am, grandma put the tray of cookies into it.

• Grandma put the tray of cookies into the oven, which is older than I am.

• The oven is older than I am Grandma put the tray of cookies into it.

• Grandma put the tray of cookies into the older than I am oven.

Is this a correctly written appositive sentence?

• True

• False

Harold is a gifted tennis player.
Harold won four national tennis championships.  Which is the correctly written appositive?

• Harold, a gifted tennis player, won four national tennis championships.

• Harold a gifted tennis player won four national tennis championships.

• Harold won four championships and Harold is a gifted tennis play. 

Charlie, Diane's eleven-year-old beagle, chews holes in the living room carpeting as if he were still a puppy.

• An appostive

• A simple sentence

• A compound sentence

• none of the above

The Outsiders, a young adult novel, is one of the best books I have ever read.  Is this a correctly written appositive?

• Yes

• No

The important point to remember is that the nonessential appositive is always separated from the rest of the sentence with comma(s).

• True

• False

Combine the sentences by using an appositive: The artist painted a beautiful landscape. The artist is known for his vibrant colors.

• A) The artist painted a beautiful landscape, known for his vibrant colors.

• B) The artist, known for his vibrant colors, painted a beautiful landscape.

• C) Known for his vibrant colors, the artist painted a beautiful landscape.

• D) The artist painted a beautiful landscape which is known for his vibrant colors.

Which sentence contains a correctly used appositive?

• A) My brother, a talented musician, plays the guitar.

• B) My brother a talented musician plays the guitar.

• C) My brother, a talented musician plays the guitar.

• D) My brother a talented musician, plays the guitar.