Appositives: What is an appositive? How to use appositives in writing?

In this lesson, I teach you about appositives: what is an appositive? How to use appositives in writing? Appositive phrases exercises & how to improve your reading and writing with appositives in this ESL writing lesson advanced level.

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What is an appositive?
An appositive is a phrase that modifies/describes/gives more information about a noun. It is usually a noun phrase that comes immediately after the noun and is set off by commas.

Example:
This book belongs to Noah, my older son.
Barack Obama, former president of the U.S., was born in Hawaii.

0:00 Introduction to appositives
0:15 What is an appositive?
1:00 How to use appositives in writing
2:05 Examples of appositives
4:22 Practice with appositives
5:15 Answers
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Why are appositives useful?

You can use them in writing 1) to add more variety to your sentences and 2) to make your writing more clear by giving more information about nouns.

You should look for them when you read because they are often used to give definitions.
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[mjay]

University graduate and English as a first language and I have never heard the word appositive before. Thank you for this lesson. I will be back

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[flethymax]

I dont wanna learn Grammer, but this kind of videos help me for learn how native speak..

[isuran]

Hi Jenna, thank you for this useful and easy-to-understand video! I wanna ask if we should drop or keep the article for appositives. For instance, in your examples, "former President" doesn't have "the" before it, so I am a little bit confused. Is there a rule for it? I can understand "the most" but for like other situations, if no superlative is involved, should we keep the article?

[ReyJr.Miranda]

Hello Ma'am 😊Can I ask a question?

I saw jeremiah, a person who likes anji.

In this sentence, "A person who likes anji"is this appositive or not?

Sorry I"m just confused😅