Identifying People
Does this sentence contain an appositive?
Arlyce Menzies, an NU professor, is a great mentor.
Yes, "an NU professor" is an appositive referring to "Arlyce Menzies" (and she is a great mentor).
Does this sentence contain an appositive?
Photosynthesis is the process by which plants transform light energy into chemical energy.
No.
Does this sentence contain an appositive?
It is important to correctly identify all of the components of Essay 2 — research questions, the corpus, secondary sources — in the outline.
Yes, "research questions, the corpus, secondary sources" is the appositive, that defines what the "components" are.
Does this sentence contain an appositive?
More than 8.5 billion animals are slaughtered for consumption annually, more than 23 million a day.
Yes, "more than 23 million a day" is an appositive that refers to "More than 8.5 billion".
You stumbled upon a lucky field. If you name everyone in the class, you get free points.
Woo-hoo!
Which of these two sentences contain an appositive?
1. Madi, a computer science student, has great English.
2. Madi is sitting in the classroom, carefully paying attention to the presentation.
Sentence 1 contains an appositive "a computer science student" that refers to "Madi".
Which of these two sentences contain an appositive?
1. Syndromes are groups of symptoms that occur together.
2. Syndromes, groups of symptoms that occur together, were studied last week in Biology class.
Sentence 2 contains an appositive "groups of symptoms that occur together" that refers to "symptoms".
Which of these two sentences contain an appositive?
1. Hopefully students will remember the topics that they studied in WCS 230 — cohesion, coherence, emphasis, and so on.
2. Cohesion, coherence, emphasis, and so on were the topics in WCS 230.
Sentence 1 contains an appositive "cohesion, coherence, emphasis, and so on" that refers to "the topics".
Which of these two sentences contain a "Renaming with a Twist" appositive?
1. Bekzhan, the best comedian of Generation Z, was studying for his midterms.
2. Bekzhan, a mathematics student, was studying for his midterms.
Sentence 1 contains a "Renaming with a Twist" appositive "the best comedian of Generation Z" that refers to "Bekzhan".
Are appositives noun, verb, or adjective phrases?
Noun phrases.
Normally, what comes first: the name or the identification?
Normally the name comes before the identification (Bacon, 2013, p. 125).
Yes. If the author describes everything, the text can seem too clunky and the audience might perceive scrutinous definitions as an offence. However, if the author does not define anything, then the audience is left in the dark.
Can appositive listing specifics begin a sentence?
Yes. For example, "Her good grades, her stipend, her authority over her younger siblings — all of this was gone after midterms week."
This technique is useful when trying to avoid long noun phrases in the place of the subject.
What is the difference between "Renaming with a Twist" appositives and "Identifying People" appositives?
"Renaming with a Twist" appositives do not identify the referent. They provide an idealised, one-dimensional characterisation of the referent. "Identifying People", on the other hand, provides cold facts to introduce a person.
Are adjective clauses and appositives both dependent clauses?
Yes.
Combine the sentence into one sentence with an appositive and create another sentence that follows the same structure and theme (baking).
Jenny loves to bake bread, cake and cookies. She is a prize-winning baker.
Jenny, a prize-winning baker, loves to bake bread, cake and cookies.
Combine the sentence into one sentence with an appositive and create another sentence that follows the same structure and theme (social issue).
Catcalling is a huge problem in Kazakhstan. Catcalling is the act of giving uncalled for comments on one's physical appearance.
Catcalling, the act of giving uncalled for comments on one's physical appearance, is a huge problem in Kazakhstan.
Combine the sentence into one sentence with an appositive and create another sentence that follows the same structure and theme (baking).
It is better when all of the ingredients are measured in advance. The ingredients are flour, milk, strawberries, and so on.
It is better when all of the ingredients — flour, milk, strawberries, and so on — are measured in advance.
Combine the sentence into one sentence with an appositive and create another sentence that follows the same structure and theme (obsession).
Youngsters admit to a scary phone obsession. I would call this obsession borderline traumatising and destructive.
Youngsters admit to a scary phone obsession, an obsession I would call borderline traumatising and destructive.
Name one difference between appositives and adjective clauses.
For instance, appositives can be nouns, noun phrases, and clauses; whereas, adjective clauses are always clauses. Etc.
Add an appositive after the noun phrase in italic and summarise everything you learned about "Identifying People" appositives.
I’ll never forget the day I met my piano teacher.
I’ll never forget the day I met my piano teacher, Mr. Jones.
Combine the sentences in each group by creating appositives. Leave the first sentence as is, and transform what follows into one or more appositives. Summarise everything that you learned today about "Defining Terms" appositives.
He might be so conscious of the C-ness of the C and the F-sharpness of the F-sharp that he fails to notice that they form a tritone. A tritone is a dissonance which makes most people wince.
He might be so conscious of the C-ness of the C and the F-sharpness of the F-sharp that he fails to notice that they form a tritone, a dissonance which makes most people wince.
Combine the sentences in each group by creating appositives. Leave the first sentence as is, and transform what follows into one or more appositives. Summarise everything that you learned today about "Filling in Examples" appositives.
Chemical analysis is conducted using quantitative methods. These methods are mass spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, atomic spectroscopy.
Chemical analysis is conducted using quantitative methods, mass spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, atomic spectroscopy.
Combine the sentences in each group by creating appositives. Leave the first sentence as is, and transform what follows into one or more appositives.
Previously every note and every key had had a distinctive flavour for him. Each note had had a character uniquely its own.
Previously every note, a character uniquely its own, and every key had had a distinctive flavour for him.
Answer one question from each group. Get the points only if you get all three right.
Good job!