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Exercise : Appositive Exercise
Highlight (Bold) and punctuate the appositives in the following sentences. Not all require punctuation.
1. My son, the policeman, will be visiting us 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 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. As an above-average student and talented musician John made his family proud.
8. The extremely popular American film Titanic was widely 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 Whitney Houston.
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- OWL Exercises
- Grammar Exercises
- Grammar Exercises Introduction
- Adjective or Adverb?
- Appositives
- Articles
- Count and Noncount Nouns
- Count and Noncount Nouns Index
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 1
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 1 Answers
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 2
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- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 3
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- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 4
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- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 5
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- Quantity Terms Exercise
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- Prepositions
- Tense Consistency
- Punctuation Exercises
- Punctuation Exercises Introduction
- Basic Punctuation
- Apostrophes
- Quotation Marks
- Commas
- Commas Index
- Comma Exercise 1
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- Comma Exercise 2
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- Comma Exercise 3
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- Comma Exercise 4
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- Comma Exercise 5
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- After Introductions Exercise 1
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- After Introductions Exercise 2
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- After Introductions Exercise 3
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- Commas vs. Semicolons - Compound Sentences
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- Nonessential Elements Exercise 1
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- Nonessential Elements Exercise 2
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- Nonessential Elements Exercise 3
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- Spelling Exercises
- Spelling Exercises Introduction
- -ible vs. -able
- Accept/Except
- Affect/Effect
- i/e Rules
- i/e Rules Index
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 1
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 1 Answers
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 2
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- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 3
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- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 4
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- Sentence Structure
- Sentence Structure Introduction
- Sentence Clauses
- Sentence Fragments
- Sentence Structure
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Sentence Style
- Writing Numbers
- ESL Exercises
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- Paraphrase and Summary Exercises
- Nominalizations and Subject Position