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Positively Appositive

Positively Appositive. Objectives. The learner will : Define an appositive. Describe the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives. Use restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives in sentences effectively, employing the proper punctuation. An Appositive Is:.

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Positively Appositive

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  1. PositivelyAppositive

  2. Objectives • The learner will: • Define an appositive. • Describe the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives. • Use restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives in sentences effectively, employing the proper punctuation.

  3. An Appositive Is: • a noun or noun phrase that renames or describes another noun right beside it. • For example: • My father’s name is Doug. • He is an avid hunter. • My father,Doug, is an avid hunter.

  4. An Appositive Is: • often set off by commas or dashes. • For example: • Two of my friends, Mary and Dylan, are on the same soccer team. • The girls’ birthdays – Elizabeth’s in November, Catherine’s in September, and Veronica’s in February – all fall at the same point in the month.

  5. An Appositive Is: • often introduced by namely, for example, that is, i.e., or e.g. • For example: • The winter months, for example, January and February, are the coldest. • Any subject in the humanities – for example, literature or history – can be used to teach writing skills and research techniques.

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

  7. More Appositive Examples: • The landscaper, Samuel, just bought a new riding lawnmower. • My sister, the teacher, just became a mother. • Many trees, for example, oaks and elms, lose their trees in the fall. • Only one person –namely, my mother– has the ability to calm me down.

  8. Identifying Appositives: • My brother, the research associate, works at a large polling firm. • I have never met the magistrate, Jean. • A white-tailed deer the most magnificent animal I had ever seen was cautiously edging toward a babbling brook. • Books that is old library books have the greatest smell to them.

  9. Essential/Restrictive vs.Nonrestrictive/Non-Essential

  10. Nonrestrictive and Restrictive: • Nonrestrictive (Non-Essential) Appositives: • add non-defining, unnecessary information. • are set off by commas or dashes. • Restrictive (essential) Appositives: • Limits the noun it is in apposition to. • cannot be omitted from a sentence without affecting its the basic meaning. • A restrictive appositive should not be set off by commas.

  11. John Boy’s oldest sister, Mary Ellen, became a nurse. Stephen King’s books, for example, Carrie and Cujo, are scary. John Boy’s sister Mary Ellen became a nurse. Stephen King’s book Cujo is scary. Nonrestrictive vs. Restrictive

  12. Nonrestrictive or Restrictive? • Piper a golden retriever loves chocolate. • My son has attended a performance of Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. • J.K. Rowling’s blockbuster children series Harry Potter made her millions of dollars. • Last year, the actor Christian Bale won an Oscar for outstanding supporting actor. • Her husbandLeonwas arrested for stealing ten packages of hotdogs and six jugs of milk from 7-11.

  13. Ask: Does the information define the subject orsimply provide extra info about the subject? • The gold medalist in the men’s 500 Freestyle Swim, Reid Elliott, celebrated his victory by going to Disneyland. • The noun “gold medalist” is defined because we assume there is only one winner in a particular event—the name is just extra information in this case. • The gold medalist Reid Elliott celebrated his victory by going to Disneyland. • There could be many gold medalists we must know the name to know the subject of the sentence!

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