Teach Appositives
Main Idea
Teaches ESL students a specific kind of sentence that works well in all kinds of writing. It looks like a grammar lesson, but really this lesson shows ESL students how to improve their English writing style.
What is an appositive?
An appositive is a noun, or noun phrase, that gives the reader extra information about a nearby noun. An appositive resembles a relative clause – but there are no words like ‘which, who or that’ at the beginning of the clause.
For example: Benny, my first dog, loved to chase birds. (The appositive is my first dog.)