● Exercise 4 ●

1. The Following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New-York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers.

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - The Following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New-York, who was very curious in the Dutch history of the province, and the manners of the descendants from its primitive settlers.
2. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife, so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house—the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife, so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house—the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.
3. Rip’s sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf… .

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - Rip’s sole domestic adherent was his dog Wolf… .
4. The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night… .

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night… .
5. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper.

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper.
6. That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon, being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprize, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name.

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - That it was affirmed that the great Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there every twenty years, with his crew of the Half-moon, being permitted in this way to revisit the scenes of his enterprize, and keep a guardian eye upon the river, and the great city called by his name.
7. His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father.

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - His son Rip, an urchin begotten in his own likeness, promised to inherit the habits, with the old clothes of his father.
8. “Alas! gentlemen,” cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, “I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the King, God bless him!”

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   Exercise 4: Appositives: Identify the appositives in the following sentences from “Rip Van Winkle,” by Washington Irving, and explain their effect. Note that all are direct quotations. - “Alas! gentlemen,” cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, “I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the King, God bless him!”