A)Identifying Appositives and Appositive Phrases.

Underline each appositive or appositive phrase in these sentences.

EXAMPLE: Captain Ahab pursued Moby Dick , the great white
whale.
1. Bastille Day, July 14, is French Independence Day.
2. Only one person, either Juan or Linda, will get the job.
3. Kory had his standard lunch: tuna fish with lettuce and cheese.
4. The safari stopped at an oasis, a moist, fertile spot in the desert.
5. The attorney handed Jenkins, her faithful clerk, a pile of briefs to
file.
6. We all enjoyed ourselves.
7. The class agreed on two captains: Phyllis and Len.
8. Our new neighbors, a young couple from Paris, are quite friendly.
9. The class play will be the comedy Arsenic and Old Lace.
10. All of them, Pete, Sue, and Judy, tried out for parts.
11. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” a dramatic monolgue by
T. S. Eliot, uses the stream-of-consciousness technique.
12. Prufrock, the speaker of the poem, is walking to a social visit.
13. At the end of the poem he pictures mermaids, mythological
aquatic creatures.
14. The poem has allusions to Dante’s Inferno, the best-known section
of The Divine Comedy.
15. T. S. Eliot, a poet and dramatist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
16. He met Ezra Pound, an American poet, who suggested publishing
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
17. Imagism, poetry that presents concise images that readers interpret
for themselves, was championed by Ezra Pound.
18. In 1922 Eliot published a challenging poem, The Waste Land, with
the help of Pound.
19. Eliot, a significant poet of the twentieth century, received the
Nobel Prize for literature.
20. “Prufrock” was published in Poetry magazine, a monthly poetry
journal.
21.My father, a sailor, is frequently away
22.Someone, you, must do something!
23.The track coach, Mrs. Terry, runs with the team on Fridays
24.The Appalachian Trail runs through this area, Shenandoah National
Park.
25.Sorry, but the only ones still available are these, the leftovers.
26.. Careful and precise was the lab assistant, Jane.
27.. I would like to introduce our mayor, Mr. Carlos Winter.
28. To what does the word californium refer?
29.. Surely, they, the founders, would agree.
30. Have you read the novel Hatchet?
31. If you students can assist us, please call our toll-free number.
32. This play, A Raisin in the Sun, has endured.
33.People in the Caribbean enjoy blaff, fish or pork stew.
34.Rent us a movie, please, any of the new releases.
35.Thank our sponsor, the very generous Gadgets Company.
36.I’m inviting everyone, every family at Hideaway Apartments
37.Charlotte in Atlantic Monthly.
38.Forten, a famous African American educator in the nineteenth
century, was published
39.. We must study and protect these, the only traces of that
mysterious civilization.
40.. The research team needs an assistant, someone with a background
in chemistry.
41. A student of classical music, Nina Simone made popular music
her realm.
42. Frankincense, a substance from African or Asian trees, has been a
valuable item for more than two thousand years.
43. Honor and a sense of duty, those are the qualities of a great leader.
44. Harry gave me his new number, a cell phone out of this area code.
45. The best one, the only practical product on the market, is our
Widget 3000.
46.George Herman Ruth, the Babe, became a cultural icon in the
1920s.
47. In 1920, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, Harry Frazee, sold
Ruth to the Yankees.
48. He played for baseball’s most successful franchise, the Yankees,
until 1934.
49. Yankee Stadium, “the House That Ruth Built,” opened in April
1923.
50. New York sportswriter Fred Lieb gave the stadium its famous
title.
51. Ruth’s teammate Lou Gehrig was a rookie for the Yankees in
1925.
52. The nickname “the Sultan of Swat” was especially appropriate
after Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927.
53. Yankee rivals the Philadelphia Athletics won the American
League pennant from 1929 to 1931.
54. In 1932, Ruth’s team won the pennant and defeated the National
League champions, the Chicago Cubs, in the World Series.
55. Ruth spent his final season as a member of the Boston Braves, the
last-place team in the league.
56. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was
over six feet tall and was nicknamed “Long Tom.”
57. Clarence Birdseye, founder of the frozen food industry, had an
ancestor who saved the life
of an English queen by shooting an arrow through the eye of an
attacking hawk.
58. Six hundred people died in the San Francisco earthquake of 1906,
one of the nation’s worst disasters.
59. George Gershwin, a writer of show music, became one of
America’s greatest composers.
60. The bird with the largest number of feathers, the whistling swan,
boasts about 25,000 feathers.
61. The number of bones in an adult human, 206, is far fewer than the
number of bones in a human infant.
62. Each parent’s twenty-three chromosomes, carriers of human
hereditary characteristics, can combine in more than eight million
ways.
63. The psychologist Dr. Catherine Cox estimates that Galileo, the
seventeenth-century Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist,
would have had an IQ of185, measured by our modern IQ scale, on
which a score of 100 is normal or average.
64. Men once wore spats, long cloth coverings for the instep and
ankle.
65. Sugarcane, a type of tall tropical grass, is the main source of the
sweetener sugar.
66. The title of the play comes from a work by Langston Hughes, an
African American poet.
67. An ardent fan of the Bulls, Jason rejoiced at their victory.
68. We celebrated at Paul’s, the finest French restaurant in town.
69. Our teacher asked Kristin ,the foreign exchange student from
Germany ,to tell us a little about her homeland.
70. The fair will be held on Hester Court, a street with many small
shops.
B)-Writing Sentences with Appositives and Appositive Phrases.
Turn each pair of sentences into a single sentence by adding one or
more appositives or appositive phrases.
EXAMPLE: We served a traditional St. Patrick’s Day dinner. It was
corned beef and steamed cabbage.
We served a traditional St. Patrick’s Day dinner: corned beef and
steamed cabbage.
1. The explorers opened the Northwest Territory. They were Lewis
and Clark.
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2. Delaware has only three counties. They are Kent, Sussex, and New
Castle.
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3. My cousin lives in Austin. It is the capital of Texas.

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4. A local reporter broke the story. She is Annette Jackson.

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5. Both finalists are fine competitors. They are Logan and Bruce.
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