Paint Your Picture Using APPOSITIVE Brush Strokes Designed
“Paint Your Picture” Using APPOSITIVE Brush Strokes Designed & Developed by Deanne Davis, Council Traditional School, 2006
Appositive Brush Strokes § An APPOSITIVE can add visual description to your writing; § An APPOSITIVE is a noun or phrase that adds more description to a previous noun; § An APPOSITIVE, set off with commas, simply “renames” a noun.
Appositive Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #1: § Target sentence: The flower bloomed. § Target sentence with an appositive: The flower, a fuchsia, sun-kissed daisy, bloomed.
Appositive Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #2: § Target sentence: The horse reared. § Target sentence with an appositive: The horse, a frosty white, Lipizzaner stallion, reared.
Appositive Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #3: § Target sentence: The burger looked delicious. § Target sentence with an appositive: The burger, a half-pound, fully loaded masterpiece, looked delicious.
Appositive Brush Stroke EXAMPLE #4: § Target sentence: The football fan attracted the camera’s attention. § Target sentence with an appositive: The football fan, a mess of orange and white paint and paraphernalia, attracted the camera’s attention.
Appositive Brush Stroke YOUR TURN: § Target sentence: The teddy bear sat on the bed.
Can you do it without a target sentence?
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