An appositive adds additional information about a noun by restating or describing the noun and is usually set off by commas. Appositives can be used to combine multiple clauses or sentences into a single sentence to provide information in a concise way. Proper punctuation, including commas, dashes or parentheses, should be used to set off the appositive depending on its position in the sentence. Appositives are a useful grammatical tool to efficiently provide context or details about a noun.

1. Section A

2. We can add information after a main noun with
an appositive. An appositive describes or gives
another name to a main noun.
Mr. Adrian,
GRAMMAR TERM: An appositive is usually also a noun phrase.
Apposition means that two noun phrases are set side by side.
my lawyer,
appositive
There is little water on Jupiter,
appositive
the largest planet in the solar
system.
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3. Section B

4. We usually use a comma before and after an
appositive.
Flat Earth was published in 2008.a fascinating book, ,

5. We sometimes use a dash— before an after an
appositive.
Part of this exam focuses on vocabulary.Section 2
Mount Everest Mount Chomolungma in Tibetan
is 8,848 meters high.
We sometimes use parentheses ( ).
— —
)(

6. Section C

7. Using an appositive is a useful way of combining
information from several clauses or sentences
into one sentence.
This is a short way to give a lot of information.
Climbing Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, can be very expensive.
Sentence 1 Sentence 2
Mount Everest is the world’s highest
mountain.
Climbing it can be very expensive.