Transcript Appositives

Phrases: Prepositional, Verbal, Absolute, and Appositive
There are 4 basic types of phrases:
1. Prepositional Phrases, which are phrases that
begin with a preposition followed by a noun or
pronoun, along with any words that modify that
noun.
Examples:
a) Jim went to school without his books.
b) Behind the cushions John found more bits of
food and other debris than he imagined possible.
2. Verbal phrases, whose key element is a verbal.
There are 3 basic types of verbals:
A. Infinitive: The lecturer used jokes to fit his topic in
order to keep his class awake.
B. Gerund: Working at nights was just impossible for
him.
C. Present participial: Running home, Jane tripped
over the curb.
Past participial: Doubled over in pain, the man
screamed for help.
3. Absolute phrases are phrases that stand
grammatically independent from the sentence.
Usually they have both a noun and a gerund that
acts as a verb substitute. Be careful with these it s
easy to confuse this with a dangling modifier.
Example:
The lecture having finished ten minutes early, we
headed over to the coffee shop.
4. Appositive phrases, which are words or groups of
words placed beside another word whose
meaning it expands. The word or phrase must be
the same part of speech and fulfill the same
grammatical function as the word it modifies.
Examples:
a) My father, an important business man in the city
of Dallas, spent much of his free time on the golf
course.
b) He spoke in a loud, or rather, commanding, voice.
APPOSITIVES
A word or group of words (phrase or clause) that
stands next to a noun to give additional
information
Step one: Identifying appositives:
Mr. MacArthur, my personal physician, has been awarded an honor
certificate.
Appositives A word or group of words (phrase or clause) that stands
next to a noun to give additional information.
What is the appositive in the previous sentence?
Mr. MacArthur, my personal physician, has been awarded an honor
certificate.
Appositives Usually come within two commas: , appositive,
Notice that: the Sentence can “live” without the appositive.
Mr. MacArthur has been awarded an honor certificate.
Find the Appositive
Ms. Tate, the lady who is by the pool, once
won our local golf tournament.
Ms. Tate, the lady who is by the pool, once
won our local golf tournament.
Dunn and Denver, our goldfish, eagerly
gulp their food
Dunn and Denver, our goldfish, eagerly
gulp their food
Find the Appositive
Lady Gray, my horse, and Duke, my cousin’s
pony, won first place ribbons at the fair.
Lady Gray, my horse, and Duke, my cousin’s
pony, won first place ribbons at the fair.
These televisions, the color one and the
portable one, will be sold at the auction
These televisions, the color one and the
portable one, will be sold at the auction
Let’s get serious: Find Appositives:
Reebok Easy Tone Sneakers, introduced in 2009, were advertised
to strengthen and tone legs 11 percent better than walking shoes
and shape a behind 28 percent better than regular footwear. But
research backing up the advertising pitch was "wholly insufficient,"
Vladeck told the Times. He did not say whether makers of other
toning shoes would be disciplined as well.
Consumers who bought EasyTone shoes, which typically cost
$100 or more, can apply for a refund at www.ftc.gov.
Reebok, a division of Adidas, agreed to the settlement but
disputed the FTC allegations. "We stand by our EasyTone
technology," Robert Pitch, company spokesman, told the Times in
an email.
"Consumers expected to get a workout, not to get worked over,"
said David Vladeck, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer
Protection, according to The New York Times.
Let’s get serious: Find Appositives:
Reebok Easy Tone Sneakers, introduced in 2009, were
advertised to strengthen and tone legs 11 percent better than
walking shoes and shape a behind 28 percent better than regular
footwear. But research backing up the advertising pitch was
"wholly insufficient," Vladeck told the Times. He did not say
whether makers of other toning shoes would be disciplined as
well.
Consumers who bought EasyTone shoes, which typically cost
$100 or more, can apply for a refund at www.ftc.gov.
Reebok, a division of Adidas, agreed to the settlement but
disputed the FTC allegations. "We stand by our EasyTone
technology," Robert Pitch, company spokesman, told the Times in
an email.
"Consumers expected to get a workout, not to get worked over,"
said David Vladeck, director of the FTC Bureau of Consumer
Protection, according to The New York Times.
What is Staphylococcus?
Staphylococcus, more familiarly known as Staph, is a
group of bacteria that can cause a number of diseases as a
result of infection of various tissues of the body. Staphrelated illness can range from mild and requiring no
treatment to severe and potentially fatal.
The name Staphylococcus comes from the Greek staphyle,
meaning a bunch of grapes, and kokkos, meaning berry,
and that is what Staph bacteria look like under the
microscope, like a bunch of grapes or little round berries. (In
technical terms, these are gram-positive, facultative
anaerobic, usually unencapsulated cocci.)
What is Staphylococcus?
Staphylococcus, more familiarly known as Staph, is a
group of bacteria that can cause a number of diseases as a
result of infection of various tissues of the body. Staphrelated illness can range from mild and requiring no
treatment to severe and potentially fatal.
The name Staphylococcus comes from the Greek staphyle,
meaning a bunch of grapes, and kokkos, meaning berry,
and that is what Staph bacteria look like under the
microscope, like a bunch of grapes or little round berries. (In
technical terms, these are gram-positive, facultative
anaerobic, usually unencapsulated cocci.)