1. Identify the appositive or appositive phrase.
Mrs. Guerrero, the president of the historical society, is retiring next summer.
Mrs. Guerrero
the president of the historical society
is retiring
next summer
2. My best friend Justin was responsible for the birthday party.
My best friend
Justin
was responsible
for the birthday party
3. Identify the appositive or appositive phrase and the word or words it renames.
Stephanie, the youth police board president, wants to volunteer at the food bank.
the youth police board president; renames Stephanie
Stephanie; renames the youth police board president
food bank; renames volunteer
to volunteer; renames wants
4. Choose the correct answer.
Select the sentence with an incorrectly punctuated appositive or appositive phrase.
Were the writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville acquainted with one another?
The book, Tom Sawyer, is full of entertaining and vivid characters.
Grandpa has many recordings of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his favorite composer.
Shep, the Samuelsons’ golden retriever, likes to fetch tennis and golf balls.
5. Choose the correct answer.
Which of the following is not true about an appositive?
It renames or further explains another noun or pronoun.
It is a noun or pronoun.
It is an appositive phrase if it includes modifiers.
It is a prepositional phrase.
