《大学英语语法》课件—05Modifiers：Appositives
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• Some vegetables — for instance, carrots and garlic — can help cure certain diseases.
When a pronoun is followed by an appositive, choose the case of the pronoun that would be correct if the appositive were omitted.
controversial love stories.
• Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter has been
taken as one of the most controversial love stories.
• (Hawthorne wrote many books, so The Scarlet Letter is necessary to make clear which one is the one of the most controversial love stories.)
• St. Peter is one of the most famous forts in Europe. • It is often visited by young men in winter. • St. Peter, one of the most famous forts in Europe, is often
• We are young men. • We should take the task of reconstruction of our homes
after the earthquake. • We young men should take the task of reconstruction of
excellence.
Appositive give extra information about the subject but don’t change its number. Make sure you don’t mistake a word in an appositive for the subject of the sentence.
our homes after the earthquБайду номын сангаасke.
• She is the best teacher of the college. • The college gave her an award for excellence. • The college gave her, its best teacher, an award for
• We often see dashes before such expressions as namely and for instance, expressions that introduce appositives.
• All of them — namely, most of them — have the course.
College English Grammar:
Grammar and Writing
Unit 5
Modifiers：Appositives
• Grammar: Appositives • Writing:
Correcting: Clutters Rewriting: How to order your ideas
• Jack is our neighbor. • He is a well-known captain. • Our neighbor Jack is a well-known captain.
• An appositive phrase is an appositive plus any words that modify the appositive.
• She is saving money to travel to Rome. • Rome is the capital of Italy. • She is saving money to travel to Rome, the capital
of Italy.
• (The appositive phrase the capital of Italy is not essential because Italy has only one capital.)
visited by young men in winter.
We generally use commas to set off any appositive or appositive phrase that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence.
Appositives
An appositive is a noun or a pronoun that is placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify it or give additional information about it.
Apart from indicating all meaning of the noun or pronoun it goes along, an appositive can also denote part of its meaning. • We Chinese people are brave and hardworking. • He is interested in sports, especially ball games.
An essential appositive gives necessary information about a noun and is not set off with commas.
• The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne’s book. • The book has been taken as one of the most
When a pronoun is followed by an appositive, choose the case of the pronoun that would be correct if the appositive were omitted.
controversial love stories.
• Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter has been
taken as one of the most controversial love stories.
• (Hawthorne wrote many books, so The Scarlet Letter is necessary to make clear which one is the one of the most controversial love stories.)
• St. Peter is one of the most famous forts in Europe. • It is often visited by young men in winter. • St. Peter, one of the most famous forts in Europe, is often
• We are young men. • We should take the task of reconstruction of our homes
after the earthquake. • We young men should take the task of reconstruction of
excellence.
Appositive give extra information about the subject but don’t change its number. Make sure you don’t mistake a word in an appositive for the subject of the sentence.
our homes after the earthquБайду номын сангаасke.
• She is the best teacher of the college. • The college gave her an award for excellence. • The college gave her, its best teacher, an award for
• We often see dashes before such expressions as namely and for instance, expressions that introduce appositives.
• All of them — namely, most of them — have the course.
College English Grammar:
Grammar and Writing
Unit 5
Modifiers：Appositives
• Grammar: Appositives • Writing:
Correcting: Clutters Rewriting: How to order your ideas
• Jack is our neighbor. • He is a well-known captain. • Our neighbor Jack is a well-known captain.
• An appositive phrase is an appositive plus any words that modify the appositive.
• She is saving money to travel to Rome. • Rome is the capital of Italy. • She is saving money to travel to Rome, the capital
of Italy.
• (The appositive phrase the capital of Italy is not essential because Italy has only one capital.)
visited by young men in winter.
We generally use commas to set off any appositive or appositive phrase that is not essential to the meaning of the sentence.
Appositives
An appositive is a noun or a pronoun that is placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify it or give additional information about it.
Apart from indicating all meaning of the noun or pronoun it goes along, an appositive can also denote part of its meaning. • We Chinese people are brave and hardworking. • He is interested in sports, especially ball games.
An essential appositive gives necessary information about a noun and is not set off with commas.
• The Scarlet Letter is Hawthorne’s book. • The book has been taken as one of the most