1. Appositives
August 12, 2015

2. 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.

3. 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.”

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

5. 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.

6. 14.
Mascots have been connected to the Olympics since 1968, in Grenoble, France, when Schuss, a skier with rings on his head, was the unofficial mascot.