Appositives

 

Harry Noden explains an appositive as "a noun that adds a second image to a preceding noun"  (Image Grammar 8).

Notes about Appositives:

• Appositives interrupt a sentence.
• They are set apart with punctuation, generally commas.

"Nana-Fall-River, his Italian grandmother, put one in a special frame on the table next to the photographer of Aunt Clo in her wedding dress" (Tomie dePaola, The Art Lesson).

"Tom and Nana, Tommy's Irish grandfather and grandmother, had his pictures in their grocery story" (Tomie dePaola, The Art Lesson).

"Catherine the Great, my Russian grandma, is already awake" (Cari Best, Three Cheers for Catherine the Great).

"Avon, a rather small snail, read a book every day" (Avi, The End of the Beginning).

"Keith, the boy in rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered room 215 of the Mountain View Inn" (Beverly Cleary, The Mouse and the Motorcycle).

"My time with Albert Einstein, my grandfather, passed all too quickly" (Marfe Ferguson Delano, Genius: A Photobiography of Albert Einstein).

"Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform" (Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux, 25).

"The sound was King Phillip playing his guitar and singing to his daughter, the Princess Pea, every night before she fell asleep" (Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux, 27). 

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