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Language and Writer’s Craft: Using Appositives
An appositive is a noun and any accompanying modifiers that are placed close to another noun to identify it.
Example: My friend Sean is an expert on baseball.
In this sentence the appositive Sean identifies the noun “my friend.”
An appositive can be a single word, as in the example above, or a phrase. Appositive phrases are usually set off by commas, parentheses, or dashes.
Example: Mary Southard, director of volunteers at the children’s hospital, reports that over fifty new volunteers signed up this year.
This appositive phrase identifies Mary Southard as someone who has knowledge (and credibility) of the number of new volunteers.
When you cite sources in an argument, use appositives and appositive phrases to give more precise information about a source. This information strengthens your appeal to logos.
2. Combine the following parts to create a sentence with an appositive phrase. Pay attention to your punctuation.
• president and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books
• Susan Katz
• explains that teen fiction is “hot” right now to people who read on e-books
3. Read the passage below from the last activity. Think about the main idea.
Tell your children of the friendly acts of Indians to the white people who first settled here. Tell them of our leaders and heroes and their deeds. Tell them of Indians such as Black Partridge, Shabbona, and others who many times saved the people of Chicago at great danger to themselves. Put in your history books the Indian’s part in the World War. Tell how the Indian fought for a country of which he was not a citizen, for a flag to which he had no claim, and for a people that have treated him unjustly.
—From The First Americans
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