1. IDENTIFY THE APPOSITIVE

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1. IDENTIFY THE APPOSITIVE

• My sister, Alicia, is at basketball practice.

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2. IDENTIFY THE APPOSITIVE

• The whole class has read the novel, Old Yeller.

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3. IDENTIFY THE APPOSITIVE

• The bowl is made of clay found on Kilimanjaro,
  the highest mountain in Africa.

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4. IDENTIFY THE APPOSITIVE

• Jamake Highwater, a Blackfoot/Eastern Band
  Cherokee, writes about the history of his people.

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5. IDENTIFY THE APPOSITIVE

• My friend, Juanita, is teaching me to make
  tortillas.

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6. ADD THE COMMA(S)

• We went to a gallery to see R.C. Gormans
  painting Freeform Lady.

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7. ADD THE COMMA(S)

• We visited Boston Harbor the site of the Boston
  Tea Party.

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8. ADD THE COMMA(S)

• The Kenai Peninsula is the home of the Alaska
  moose the largest deer in the world.

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9. ADD THE COMMA(S)

• Of course, travelers should give particularly
  careful thought to walking shoes the most
  important item
• of apparel
• on any sightseeing trip.

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10. ADD THE COMMA(S)

• It is possible to pack enough clothes for three
  weeks in small luggage perhaps a duffel or
  shoulder bag.

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11. ADD THE COMMAS

• At the beginning of class today, we sang The
  Star-Spangled Banner the American national
  anthem.

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12. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• How are appositives punctuated?

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13. ANSWER THE QUESTIONS

• What part of speech (almost) always precedes an
  appositive?

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14. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• Where in a sentence can an appositive be located?

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15. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• Where in a sentence can an appositive NOT be
  located?

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16. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• What happens to the sentence if we remove the
  appositive?

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17. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• What part of speech will NEVER be found in an
  appositive?

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18. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• Why is the underlined part NOT an appositive?
• Subsistence farms, small plots where farmers grow
  only enough to feed their families, are common.

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19. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• Why is the underlined part NOT an appositive?
• Breathing also rids your body of carbon dioxide,
  which is a waste product.

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20. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• Why is the underlined part NOT an appositive?
• Officer Webb, of Corry, apprehended the burglar.

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21. ANSWER THE QUESTION

• Why is the underlined part NOT an appositive?
• The best player, in my opinion, is Willard.