1. Honors 9th Lit Sentence Composing for High School Appositive Phrases
~ adapted from Don Killgallon

2. Appositive Phrases
Appositives are noun phrases that identify adjacent nouns or pronouns.
Noun phrases are phrases (phrases have either a subject or predicate, but not both) formed by a noun and all its modifiers and determiners; broadly: any syntactic element with a noun's function (as the subject of a verb or the object of a verb or preposition).

3. I’ll Have an Appositive with that…
Unscrambling Sentences: Each scrambled sentence has one or more appositives. Identify them. Then unscramble the sentence parts and write out the sentence, punctuating it correctly.
struggled as usual
she
to maintain her calm, composed, friendly bearing
a sort of mask she wore all over her body
the tyrannosaur
with a huge flaring nose
A long snuffling inhalation that fluttered Badelton’s trouser legs
gave Baselton a smell

4. Unscrambling Continued…
went over to Tom Willy’s saloon
in the late afternoon
Will Henderson
and the editor of the Eagle
Owner
and the jingle of trace chains
was louder
drag of brakes
the sound of the approaching grain teams
thud of big hooves on hard ground

5. Imitate and learn from the greats
Model: Beside the fireplace old Doctor Winter sat, bearded and simple and benign, historian and physician to the town.
President and valedictorian of the senior class
By the podium
Intelligent and composed and smiling
Scholarly Henriatta stood
Beaming and affectionate and happy
Bride and groom in their finery
They danced
Under the canopy

6. Imitate and learn from the greats
Models:
A tall, rawhide man in an unbuttoned, sagging vest, he was visibly embarrassed by any furnishings that suggested refinement.
His car, a perfectly maintained 1960 Thunderbird that was his pride and joy, stood in the driveway.
Sara watched him as he walked, a small figure for his ten years, wearing faded blue jeans and a striped knit shirt that was stretched out of shape.