Appositive Phrase Worksheets.docx

 Appositive Phrase Part 1: Matching Match the appositive phrase with the sentences. Write out each sentence, inserting and underlining the appositive phrase. Sentences:Opening Adjectives:1. There was no one in The Hot Spot store but Mr. Shiftlet and the boy behind the counter, ^. Flannery O’Conner, “The Life You Save May be Your Own.a. a small room with a large, welcoming fire.2. Once they were in her office, ^, Professor McGonagall motioned to Harry and Hermione to sit down. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanb. the young man who worked as Mr. Hosokawa’s translator3. In our clenched fists, we held our working cards from the shop, ^. Gerda Weissmann Klein, “All But My Life”C. its shadow4. General Wantabe, ^, leaned over and spoke the words in Japanese to his employer. Ann Patchett, Bel CantoD. those sacred cards that we thought meant security5. A gray cat, dragging it’s belly, crept across the lawn, and a black one, ^, trailed after. Katherine Mansfield, “Bliss”e. a pale youth with a greasy rag hung over his shoulderPart 2: Unscrambling to Imitate In the model and the scrambled list, identify the appositive phrase. Next, unscramble and write out the sentence parts to imitate the model. Finally, write our own imitation of the model and identify the appositive phrase. MODEL: The proprietor, a little gray man with an unkempt mustache and watery eyes, leaned on the counter, reading a newspaper. a. a tall thin blondb. walked down the runwayc. with a long mane and long legsd. eyeing the audiencee. a model You: Part 3: Combining to Imitate In the model, identify the appositive phrases. Next, combine the list of sentences to imitate the model. Finally, write your own imitation of the model and identify the appositive phrase. MODEL: A veteran bronc rider, Tom black has ridden nine horses to the death in the rodeo arena, and at every performance the spectators expect him to kill another one.Hal Borland, When the Legends Die a. This sentence is about a fascinating historical speaker, Professor Southwick.b. He has visited many museumsc. He visits them for study of the medieval period.d. And at every visit the curators want him to give another lecture. You: Part 4: Imitating Identify the appositive phrase in the models and sample imitations. Then, write an imitation of each model sentence, one sentence part at a time. Models: 1. A golden female moth, a biggish one with a two-inch wingspread, flapped in the fire of a candle, drooped abdomen into the wet wax, stuck, flamed, and frazzled in a second.Annie Dillard, “Death of a Moth” Sample: A green garter snake, a skittish one with a six-inch length, slid toward the foot of the tree, parted grass in the wet yard, stopped, sensed, and disappeared in a flash. You: 2. The dictionary has a picture of an aardvark, a long-tailed, long-eared, burrowing African mammal living off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as an anteater does for ants.Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X Sample: The living room contained a portrait of an ancestor, a grim-faced, black-haired, dour, matronly relative giving out disapproval signaled by looking down her nose as a parent does in disappointment. You: 3. A beautiful animal, it lay in the position of a marble lion, its head toward a man sitting on a upturned bucket outside the cage.Frank Bonham, Chief Sample: A shy observer, she hesitated on the outskirts of the spirited group, her body behind a flirty girl talking with a handsome boy inside the circle. You: Part 5: Expanding The appositive phrases are omitted at the caret mark (^) in the following sentences. For each caret, add an appositive phrase, blending your content and style with the rest of the sentence. 1. Vivi had a summer earache, ^.Rebecca Wells, Ya Yas in Bloom 2. A few days after I went into the hospital for that crick in my neck, another brother, ^, was undergoing spinal surgery in the same hospital two floors above me.John McMurty, “Kill ‘Em! Crush ‘Em! Eat ‘Em Raw! 3. ^, William T. Stead seemed almost to have planned his arrival on deck later that night when the Titanic hit the iceberg.Walter Lord, A Night to Remember ................
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