I.
Highlight
(Bold) and punctuate the appositives in the following sentences. Not all
require punctuation.
1.
My son,
the police man will be visiting next week.
2.
The
captain ordered the ship’s carpenters to assemble the shallop, a large rowboat
3.
Walter,
the playboy and writer, is very attached to his mother, Mrs. Hammon.
4.
Paul
Newman the famous the famous American actor directed five motion pictures.
5.
Elizabeth
Teague, a sweet and lovable girl, grew up to be a mentally troubled woman.
6.
Sweetbriar
a company known throughout the South is considering a nationwide advertising
campaign.
7.
An
above-average student and talented musician John made his family proud.
8.
The
extremely popular American film Titanic was widel criticized for its mediocre
script.
9.
Citizen
Kane the greatest American film ever made won only one Academy Award.
10.
60 Minutes
the TV news magazine program featured a story on the popular singer Whiney
Houston.
Thee Answer:
NPM: 2C214991
1.
My son, the police man will be visiting next
week.
WHY?
The
police man is the one of appositive because its a noun that being after the
other noun, is to make the sentence clear and easier to understand.
II.
Highlight
(Bold) and punctuate the appositives in the following sentences. Not all
require punctuation.
1.
Each
parents twenty-three chromosomes, carrie of human hereditary characteristics,
can combine in more than eight million ways.
2.
Men one
wore spats, long cloth coverings for the instep and ankle.
3.
Sugarcane,
a type of tall tropical grass, is the main source of the sweetener sugar.
4.
The bird
with the largest number of feathers, the whistling swan, boasts about 25,000
teathers.
5.
The number
of bones in an adult human, 206, is far fewer than the number of bones in a
human infant.
6.
Six
hundred people died in the San Fransisco earthuake of 1960, one of the nation’s
worst disasters.
7.
George
Gershwin, a writer of show music, became one of America’s greatest composers.
8.
Our family
visited The Smithsonian Institution, a vast network of galleries in Washington,
D.C.
9.
Our
neighbor and his daughters, Pavi and Sonya, take walks every evening.
10.
The
flashlight should be returned to Mark, the owner.
The answer:
NPM : 2C214991
1.
Each
parents twenty-three chromosomes, carrie
of human hereditary characteristics, can combine in more than eight million
ways.
WHY?
Carrie
of human hereditary characteristics, is the one of appositive because its a
noun that being after the other noun is to make the sentence clear and easier
to understand.
III.
Choose two
of these question then write the answer!
1.
Your
friend [talk-talks] too much.
2.
The man
with the Roses [look-looks] like your brother.
3.
The woman
in the pool [swim-swims] well.
4.
Bill
[drive-drives] a cab.
5.
The
football player [run-runs] five miles everyday.
6.
That red
haired lady in the fur hat [live-lives] accross the street.
7.
He
[cook-cooks] dinner for his family.
8.
The boys
[walk-walks] to school everyday.
9.
The
weather on the cost [appear-appears] to be good this weekend.
10.
The center
on the basketball team [ bounce-bounces] the ball too high.
The Answer :
1.
Your
Friend talk too much
The reason why the answer is
“talks” not “talk”, because the sentence above is kind of simple present tense,
and if the subject of simple present tense is she, he or it the verb after the
subject must be add with “s” or “es”, and friend is just describe one
person.
2.
He cooks dinner
for his family
The reason why the answer is
“cooks” not “cook”, because the sentence above is kind of simple
present tense, and if the subject of simple present tense is she, he or it the
verb after the subject must be add with “s” or “es”.
