EXERCISE 5
Each of the following sentences includes one or more appositives. Identify
the app...
EXERCISE 5
Each of the following sentences includes one or more appositives. Identify
the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own
using that sentence as a model.
1. And on the basis of this evidence the moral and political evi-
dence one is compelled to say that this is a backward society.
James Baldwin, "A Talk to Teachers
2. So to regard the young child, the young man, requires, no doubt, rare
patience: a patience that nothing but faith in the remedial forces of
the soul can give.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Education"
3. Mr. Somervell - a most delightful man, to whom my debt is great
was charged with the duty of teaching the stupidest boys the most re-
garded thing --- namely, to write mere English.
- Winston Churchill, A Roving Commission: My Early Life
4. In their classes, we wrote essays about our families, friends, hobbies,
future dreams -- personal subjects we had not written about at
school since third grade.
Kyoko Mori,"School"
5. I am also other selves: a late starter, a casualty of the culture wars of
the 1960s, an alienated adolescent sopping op pop culture and
dreaming of escape, an American kid growing up in the 1950s, play
ing touch football and watching I Love Lucy
Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies
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