Appositives
a. writing is a “natural gift.”
b. writing, like watching television, is a passive activity.
c. practice won’t help an unskilled writer.
d. writing is hard work for almost everyone.
a. daydreaming.
b. writing careful and correct sentences.
c. writing for ten minutes or so without stopping.
d. drawing boxes, arrows, and circles to show relationships between ideas.
1)
2) writing and revising,
3) editing,
4) proofreading.
a. Professional athletes are underworked and overpaid.
b. My cousin has centred his life around becoming a professional basketball player.
c. For several reasons, professional athletes today are a bad influence on young people.
d. The importance of professional athletes is the subject of this paper.