APPOSITIVE PHRASES
A mini-lesson
From Sentence Composing for High School
by Don Killgallon
Copy the following information in your RESOURCE NOTEBOOK.
APPOSITIVE
PHRASES
Appositives are noun
phrases that identify
adjacent nouns or
pronouns.
THEY CAN OCCUR AS
SENTENCE OPENERS:
A balding, smooth-faced
man, he could have been
anywhere between forty and
sixty.
- Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
THEY CAN OCCUR AS
SUBJECT-VERB SPLITS:
A man, a weary old pensioner with
a bald dirty head and a stained
brown corduroy waistcoat,
appeared at the door of a small gate
lodge.
- Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
THEY CAN OCCUR AS
SENTENCE CLOSERS:
He had the appearance of a man
who had done a great thing,
something greater than any
ordinary man would do.
- John Henrick Clarke, “The Boy Who Painted Christ Black”
“Among the company was a lawyer, a young
man of about twenty-five."
- Anton Chekov, “The Bet”
Order and combine these four sentence parts so that
they imitate the sentence above:
1.
2.
3.
4.
She was near the statue.
She was an obvious tourist.
She was an oriental lady.
She had a Kodak camera.
In the Compbook, write a full page of
description and/or commentary about the
six pilgrims we have met thus far, using at
least six of the words from the first two
sets of Cantercabulary words. In addition,
use appositive phrases at least four
times.
Review the mini-lesson for help, and try to vary
the placement of the appositive phrase – as a
sentence opener, a subject-verb split, or as a
sentence closer.