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Appositives August 12, 2015

What is an Appositive? An appositive is a noun or a noun phrase that identifies or renames another noun. An appositive usually appears right after the word or phrase that it renames.

Appositives For example: My favorite book, The Fault in Our Stars, only took me three days to read. In the sentence above, The Fault in Our Stars is renaming “my favorite book.”

Appositives Appositives do not have a verb. They are a phrase, not a complete sentence.

Punctuating Appositives As a general rule, a comma should be placed both before and after an appositive. Rafael, a boy in my homeroom, brought his lunch today.

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