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Commas and Appositives

An appositive is a noun or pronoun that renames or identifies another noun, set off with commas. Appositives can appear before, within, or after the noun they rename. They have no subject or verb and can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning. Commas are used to set off appositives from the rest of the sentence.

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Commas and Appositives

An appositive is a noun or pronoun that renames or identifies another noun, set off with commas. Appositives can appear before, within, or after the noun they rename. They have no subject or verb and can be removed without changing the sentence's meaning. Commas are used to set off appositives from the rest of the sentence.

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Appositives & Commas

An appositive is a noun or pronoun — often with modifiers

— set beside another noun or pronoun to explain or identify

it. Here are some examples of appositives (the noun or

pronoun will be in blue, the appositive will be in red).

• Your friend, Bill, is in trouble.


• My brother's car, a sporty red convertible
with bucket seats, is the envy of my friends.
• The chief surgeon, an expert in organ-
transplant procedures, took her nephew on a
hospital tour.
Helpful Hints
• Sometimes the appositive phrase comes
before the noun or pronoun
• An appositive phrase :
 Renames the noun or pronoun
 Has no subject or verb
 Can be removed from a sentence without
changing the meaning
 Can appear anywhere in a sentence
Example
• Wrong: Romeo and Juliet a play about
two young lovers was written by William
Shakespeare a talented writer in the
Elizabethan Era.

• Right: Romeo and Juliet, a play about


two young lovers, was written by William
Shakespeare, a talented writer in the
Elizabethan Era.
Commas with Appositives

Appositives
An appositive is a word or group of words that renames a noun or pronoun
in a sentence. Appositives are almost always set off with commas and can
appear at the beginning, middle, or end of a sentence.

• My two favorite states, Rhode Island and Maine, are on the


East Coast.
• A dedicated teacher, Ms. James was awarded on Friday.
• Nigeria is home to the Ogonis, a minority tribe.

Note: some appositives have essential information and are not set
off with commas. For example: The famed talk show host Oprah
Winfrey attended the event.
Commas

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