Appositives

Detective Pikachu, a talking Pokemon, tries to solve mysteries. What is the appositive?

• Pikachu

• Detective

• a talking Pokemon

• mysteries

Is this an essential appositive or a nonessential appositive? Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian artist, drew a flying machine with flapping wings around 1500.

• Essential (or restrictive) appositive

• Nonessential (or nonrestrictive) appositive

Nonessential appositives are ALWAYS offset by

• quotations

• a colon

• commas

• periods

Identify the appositive in the following sentence: "Mr. Wilkinson, our Marketing Manager, will show you around."

• Mr. Wilkinson

• our Marketing Manager

• you around

• will show

Identify the appositives in the following sentence and tell whether they are appositives to subjects, direct objects, or predicate nominatives: "Mr. Wilkinson, our Marketing Manager, will show you around."

• subject

• direct object

• predicate nominative

Identify the appositive in the following sentence: "Those ladies are Deborah and Kate, my two colleagues."

• are Deborah

• Those ladies

• Deborah and Kate

• my two colleagues

Identify the appositives in the following sentence and tell whether they are appositives to subjects, direct objects, or predicate nominatives: "Those ladies are Deborah and Kate, my two colleagues."

• subject

• direct object

• predicate nominative

Identify the appositive in the following sentence: "The boy with the cowboy hat, the guitar player, is my friend."

• The boy

• with the cowboy hat

• my friend

• the guitar player

Identify the appositives in the following sentence and tell whether they are appositives to subjects, direct objects, or predicate nominatives: "The boy with the cowboy hat, the guitar player, is my friend."

• subject

• direct object

• predicate nominative

Identify the appositive in the following sentence: "Paris, the capital of France, is a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture."

• global center for art

• the capital of France

• global center for art

• gastronomy and culture