Writing with Nouns Appositives Your appositive adds information

Your appositive adds information to your noun. My friends went to the park on

Your appositive must always have a comma before it and another punctuation mark at

Which sentences have an appositive? 1. In the morning I completed my school work,

Check your answers, the appositives are underlined and highlighted in red. 1. In the

Reminders Remember an appositive always comes right after the noun it is adding information

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Writing with Nouns: Appositives

Your appositive adds information to your noun. My friends went to the park on Saturday. Who went to the park? My friends, Sarah and Michelle, went to the park on Saturday. The appositive is Sarah and Michelle.

Your appositive must always have a comma before it and another punctuation mark at the end. • Appositives in the middle of a sentence have two commas, one before and one after: • My friends, Sarah and Michelle, went to the park on Saturday. • Appositives at the end of the sentence have one comma before and an end punctuation after: • I went to the park on Saturday with my friends, Sarah and Michelle.

Which sentences have an appositive? 1. In the morning I completed my school work, Math and English. 2. This weekend I am going to Six Flags, it’s a fun amusement park! 3. My mom told me to clean my room, it looks like a tornado went through it. 4. David and Brett, sixth grade students, won awards for playing soccer. 5. Summer, my favorite season, is almost here! 6. Legos, colorful interlocking building blocks, are all over my teacher’s house!

Check your answers, the appositives are underlined and highlighted in red. 1. In the morning I completed my school work, Math and English. 2. This weekend I am going to Six Flags, it’s a fun amusement park! 3. My mom told me to clean my room, it looks like a tornado went through it. 4. David and Brett, sixth grade students, won awards for playing soccer. 5. Summer, my favorite season, is almost here! 6. Legos, colorful interlocking building blocks, are all over my teacher’s house!

Reminders Remember an appositive always comes right after the noun it is adding information to. Also look out for prepositions, if your sentence has a prepositional phrase it may not have an appositive. “Oh no!! I Left my Preposition guide at school!!” That’s ok, go to page 316 in your Grammar book and refer to the chart. A preposition word is always at the beginning of a prepositional phrase, and never at the beginning of an appositive.