1. Phrases
Appositives

2. Appositives
A noun or pronoun that identifies or renames another noun or pronoun
Ex: My sister, Pam Prince, owns a horse ranch near Madison.

3. Types of App. Phrases Essential Non-Essential
Needed to make the sentence’s meaning clear or complete
Not separated by commas
Non-Essential
Adds extra information to the sentence
Separated from rest of sentence by commas

4. Non-Essential or Essential?
The horse Persephone is for sale.
Oedipus, my sister’s newest horse, is very fuzzy.
My sister names her animals after Greek mythology, her favorite subject in college.
My sister’s horse Reflection isn’t named after a Greek because she bought him from someone who had already named him.