1. Predicate Nominatives, Appositives and Appositive Phrases

2. Predicate Nominatives
Noun or Pronoun
Comes after a LINKING VERB
Re-identifies the subject or directly refers to it.
Mr. Richards is the mayor.

3. Predicate Nominative vs. Direct Object
A predicate nominative IS NOT the direct object.
Direct Object
Predicate Nominative
Alice caught a crazy cat.
Alice is a crazy cat.

4. Mr. Richards is intelligent.
Predicate Adjective
Adjective in the predicate of the sentence
Follows a LINKING VERB
Describes the subject while renaming it
Mr. Richards is intelligent.

5. Can you find the Predicate Nominative?
Sophie is my closest friend.
Botany is the study of plants.
The flag became a national symbol.
The lead actress in the movie was Reese Witherspoon.
Sixth period was a good example of behavior.

6. Can you find the Predicate Nominative?
Sophie is my closest friend.
Botany is the study of plants.
The flag became a national symbol.
The lead actress in the movie was Reese Witherspoon.
Sixth period was a good example of behavior.

7. Can you find the Predicate Nominative?
Sophie is my closest friend.
Botany is the study of plants.
The flag became a national symbol.
The lead actress in the movie was Reese Witherspoon.
Sixth period was a good example of behavior.

8. Can you find the Predicate Nominative?
Sophie is my closest friend.
Botany is the study of plants.
The flag became a national symbol.
The lead actress in the movie was Reese Witherspoon.
Sixth period was a good example of behavior.

9. Can you find the Predicate Nominative?
Sophie is my closest friend.
Botany is the study of plants.
The flag became a national symbol.
The lead actress in the movie was Reese Witherspoon.
Sixth period was a good example of behavior.

10. Can you find the Predicate Nominative?
Sophie is my closest friend.
Botany is the study of plants.
The flag became a national symbol.
The lead actress in the movie was Reese Witherspoon.
Sixth period was a good example of poor behavior.

11. Predicate Nominatives
PRACTICE
Complete Worksheet page 31
Predicate Nominatives

12. Appositive A noun or pronoun placed after another noun or pronoun to:
identify,
rename, or
explain the preceding word.
The painter Pablo Picasso lived in Spain.
I would love to visit Spain’s famous museum, The Prado.

13. Appositive Phrase An appositive phrase is:
A noun or pronoun with modifiers (describing words).
It stands next to a noun or pronoun and adds information or details.

14. Examples of appositive phrases
Willa Cather, an American novelist, wrote My Antonia.
Lisbon, a thriving port in Portugal, has often been the scene of espionage.
The shopping center – a network of cars, shops, and people – provides many jobs.

15. Appositives and appositive phrases CAN be compound
The two settings, a city in England and a city in Russia, are contrasted in the book.

16. An appositive is NOT a prepositional phrase
The boy with the broken arm is my brother.
Appositive:
The boy, the one with the broken arm, is my brother.

17. Commas and appositives
When this word or group of words interrupts a sentence, it needs commas on both sides.
Riley, my dog, is gregarious
EXCEPTION: If it is one word, name, or title, NO COMMA IS NEEDED!
My dog Riley is gregarious.

18. Examples from Tuck Everlasting
“Winnie, the only child of the house, never went there…”
It was Mae Tuck with her other
son, Jesse’s older brother.

19. Which sentence contains an appositive?
A The books need placed in the desk.
B The wind blew leaves into the pool.
C My computer, a laptop, is easy to transport.
D The police blocked off the intersection.

20. Which sentence contains an appositive?
A The books need placed in the desk.
B The wind blew leaves into the pool.
C My computer, a laptop, is easy to transport.
D The police blocked off the intersection.

21. Which words in the above sentence forms an appositive?
The window, which is broken, needs to be taken out and replaced.
A The window,
B which is broken,
C needs to be taken
D out and replaced.

22. Which words in the above sentence forms an appositive?
The window, which is broken, needs to be taken out and replaced.
A The window,
B which is broken,
C needs to be taken
D out and replaced.

23. PRACTICE
Complete Worksheet page 35
Appositives