noun
- words or phrases that rename or explain another noun or pronoun, usually set off by commas
Usage: grammar term; plural form
Examples
- The teacher explained how to identify appositives in sentences.
- In the sentence ‘My brother, a doctor, lives in Chicago,’ the phrase ‘a doctor’ is an appositive.
- Students often struggle with punctuating appositives correctly.
- Essential appositives don’t require commas, while nonessential ones do.
- The grammar book has a whole chapter on appositives and their uses.
- She circled all the appositives in the paragraph during the exercise.