Homework Questions from the Grammar Book
Write the appositive or appositive phrase in each sentence. Then, beside each one, write the word it
identifies or explains.
1. Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, February 12, falls on a Tuesday this year.
2. The sixteenth president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, belonged to the Republican
Party.
3. Thomas Lincoln, his father, was a carpenter.
4. Little is known about his mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln.
5. Lincoln’s first home, a long cabin in Kentucky, was located in Larue County.
6. Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd, a fellow Kentuckian, on November 4, 1842.
7. As the underdog in the 1858 senatorial campaign, Lincoln debated his opponent, Stephen
Douglas.
8. Douglas, a Democrat, lost the debates but won the senate seat.
9. Lincoln, a virtual unknown, was able to win the presidency in 1860.
10. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth, a radical, in April of 1865.