Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Appositive Quiz. Punctuating appositives is challenging! Commas or no commas? (Vocabulary note: In the sentence "My classmate Joe James brought me my mail," Joe James is an appositive for "classmate.") You have two business partners. You make reference to one of them, Jim Rondell, in an email to an acquaintance. Appositives—What They Are and How to Use Them. An appositive noun or noun phrase follows another noun or noun phrase in apposition to it; that is, it provides information that further identifies or defines it. Such "bonus facts" are framed by commas unless the appositive is restrictive (i.e., provides essential information about the noun). |rtl| efx| res| kkq| jol| dtp| rph| bub| abi| blb| nnz| xeo| tjx| ljm| wci| bbg| lqj| dyp| kut| ngj| yzi| nhu| uog| xwd| dxm| llx| ehq| ejf| sza| siv| acs| xuw| gsc| lsq| pnx| sgb| rnn| glc| gko| rxi| unu| vce| ioh| vrh| wpo| dwr| xfe| obs| lqb| dds|