Transcript Appositives - White River High School

Appositives
Appositives
A descriptive clause which is ADJACENT
to the noun it describes
Three places they can appear: Sentence
Opener, Subject-Verb Split, Sentence
Closer
Appositive Examples
Sentence Openers:
– Cold-hearted and desperate, Candace walked
through the door.
Subject-Verb Split:
– Candace, cold-hearted and desperate, walked
through the door.
Sentence Closers:
– Through the door walked Candace, cold-hearted
and desperate.
Sentence Scrambles:
ID the appositives and write out the sentences
1)
a. struggled as usual
b. she
c. to maintain her calm, composed, friendly bearing
d. a sort of mask she wore all over her body
(from D. H. Lawrence’s “The Blind Man”)
2)
a. an old, bowlegged fellow in a pale-blue sweater
b. the judge
c. and was reading over some notes he had taken
d. had stopped examining the animals
e. on the back of a dirty envelope
(from Jessamyn West “The Lesson”)
Sentence Scrambles cont.
3)
a. the tyrannosaur
b. with huge flaring nostrils
c. a long snuffling inhalation that fluttered Baselton’s
trouser legs
d. gave Baselton a smell
(from Michael Crichton’s The Lost World)
4)
a. and the jingle of trace chains
b. was louder
c. drag of brakes
d. the sound of the approaching grain teams
e. thud of big hooves on hard ground
(from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men)
Imitation—Unscramble the sentence to
make it match the model’s structure
MODEL: Beside the fireplace old Doctor
Winter sat, bearded and simple and benign,
historian and physician to the town.
(from John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down)
1. a. president and valedictorian of the senior
class
b. by the podium
c. intelligent and composed and smiling
d. scholarly Henrietta stood
Imitation—Unscramble the sentence to
make it match the model’s structure
MODEL: Beside the fireplace old Doctor
Winter sat, bearded and simple and benign,
historian and physician to the town.
(from John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down)
2. a. beaming and affectionate and happy
b. bride and groom in their finery
c. they danced
d. under the canopy
Combining and Imitating—Take and rewrite
the content to imitate the model given
MODEL: Mr. Cattanzara, a stocky, bald-headed
man who worked in a change booth on an IRT
station, lived on the next block after George’s,
above a shoe repair store.
1. a. This is about Jan Carter
b. She is an unabashed, suntanned flirt
c. She had smiled at him in the cafeteria line.
d. She, who had transferred to the department near
Tom’s
e. She transferred for a “chance” meeting.
Combining and Imitating—Take and rewrite
the content to imitate the model given
MODEL: Sady Ellison, the daughter of Long Butt
Ellison, worked as a waitress for Turkey Plott in a
defiant and condescending fashion.
2. a. This is about Gone with the Wind.
b. That is the movie with the most reissues.
c. It originated as a novel.
d. The novel was of the old South.
e. The novel was by someone who was
unglamorous.
f. The someone was also unknown.
g. The someone was an authoress.
Expanding—at the slash mark add an
appositive phrase.
1. My bed was an army cot, / .
2. He, / , had fled because of superior
perceptions and knowledge.
3. I had hardly any patience with the serious
work of life which not that it stood between me
and desire, seemed to me child’s play, / .
4. There was Major Hunter, / , / . (2 appositives)
Expanding—at the slash mark add an
appositive phrase.
1. The doorway stood, / .
2. Kenneth, / , ran from the scene only to find
himself caught up once more.
3. I couldn’t move forward with this situation, /.
4. She stood, Winifred Victoria Madison, / , / .
(2 appositives)
Put the Appositive to work. Write 1
sentence which includes the following:
2 appositive phrases that identify 2 objects, persons,
or places within the same sentence
Each appositive phrase needs to be over 10 words
long.
Example: Elvis Presley, the famous king of 50s rock
and roll who achieved fame overnight, made his
first national appearance on the “Ed Sullivan Show”, a
live television music and variety program during
which the camera man was given special
directions for shooting the Presley performance.
Put the Appositive to work. Write 2
sentences which include the following:
2 appositive phrases that identify 2 objects, persons,
or places within the same sentence
Each appositive phrase needs to be over 10 words
long.
Example: Britney Spears, the current celebrity starlet
who has displayed her train wreck of a life most
publicly, recently appeared on MTV’s Video Music
Award Show, an annual event to award and honor
the best music videos of the year.
Put the Appositive to work. Write 3
sentences which include the following:
2 appositive phrases that identify 2 objects,
persons, or places within the same sentence
Each appositive phrase needs to be over 10
words long.
Example: The house, a delightful and lovely
cottage nestled in the green, grassy
foothills, was where she retired, a time she
committed to reading good books and
hiking on the nearby trails.