Making an Appositive Experience!

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Making an Appositive Experience!
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What do you notice?

• Catherine the Great, my Russian grandma, is
  already awake.
• -- Cari Best, Three Cheers for Catherine the
  Great! (2003)

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Why use appositives?

• Sometimes when we write, we want to add new
  information without creating a new sentence.
• For example

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• Clementine is funny.
• She is in third grade.
• She lives in New York.

Clementine, a funny third grader, lives in New
York.
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Lets ask ourselves, what is being renamed??

• Avon, a rather small snail, read a book every
  day.

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So what is an appositive??

• noun or pronoun -- often with modifiers -- set
  beside another noun or pronoun to explain or
  identify it
• Keith, the boy in rumpled shorts and shirt, did
  not know he was being watched as he entered room
  215 of the Mountain View Inn.

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Placement of appositives

• An appositive phrase usually follows the word it
  explains or identifies, but it may also precede
  it.

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So lets practice using appositives ?

• I watched her playing ladushky with Mimmo so he
  wouldnt cry.
• Ladushky is a clapping song.
• The clapping song is Russian.

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When do we use punctuation?

• Remember non-essential clauses/phrases?
• Commas

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• When there is an essential information contained
  in the appositive, then you dont need commas.

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Give One Get One Game

1. Every person has a game card.
2. You must share three appositive sentences with
   three different people.
3. You must have three sentences from three
   different people, and you must share three
   different appositive sentences from your own
   flipbook.
4. After you receive a sentence from someone, write
   that persons name underneath the sentence.
5. You have 4 minutes to accomplish this mission!