Wednesday 15 June 2016

Choose the appositive or appositive phrase in the sentence. If the sentence has no appositive or appositive phrase, choose none. "Some of them...

This sentence has a relative clause and not an appositive.  A relative clause will have a subject and verb, begin with a relative pronoun like who, whom, whose, or which and is considered an adjective clause that answers a question.  In the sentence, “who” is the subject, “is” is the verb, and the clause answers the question, “which one.” 


An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that modifies or gives more information about a...

This sentence has a relative clause and not an appositive.  A relative clause will have a subject and verb, begin with a relative pronoun like who, whom, whose, or which and is considered an adjective clause that answers a question.  In the sentence, “who” is the subject, “is” is the verb, and the clause answers the question, “which one.” 


An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that modifies or gives more information about a noun and usually comes after a noun in the sentence. 


If this sentence said, “Some of them say that Nelson, a sculptor, made a bad choice this time”, you would have a sentence with an appositive.   Notice that there isn’t a subject or a verb in an appositive. 


Here are some other examples of appositives:


Miss Smith, my first grade teacher, was very influential.


Lady Gaga, a famous singer, is having a concert in town today.

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