Appositive Phrases

Step 5 - Scrambled Exercises:

Example:

president and valedictorian of the senior class / by the podium / intelligent and composed and smiling / scholarly Henrietta stood

By the podium scholarly Henrietta stood, intelligent and composed and smiling, president and valedictorian of the senior class.

1. struggled as usual / she / to maintain her calm, composed, friendly bearing / a sort of mask she wore all over her body

D.H. Lawrence, “The Blind Man”

2. an old bowlegged fellow in a pale-blue sweater / the judge / and was reading over some notes he had taken / had stopped examining the animals / on the back of a dirty envelope Jessamyn West, “The Lesson”

3. the tyrannosaur / with huge flaring nostrils / a long snuffling inhalation that fluttered Baselton’s trouser legs / gave Baselton a smell

Michael Crichton, The Lost World

4. with the butt of a teamster’s whip / once / Enoch Bentley / old Tom Bentley / struck his father / and the old man seemed likely to die / the older one of the boys

Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio

5. with devil-may-care eyes and a long humorous nose / Mr. Mick Malloy / tall cashier with a dignified face / a nice sort of fellow / tall, young secret gambler / a gentlemanly bank clerk / became Mr. Malloy

Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

HW: Use the above sentences as models to write two of your own sentences, using vocabulary from Unit 2.

Example sentence:

Compensating himself for enduring a hard day's work, Sam ordered a tantalizing dessert, red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream.