● Exercise 5 ●

1. Even as late as 1960, Catholic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy felt compelled to make a major speech declaring that his loyalty was to America, not the pope. (And as recently as the 2008 Republican primary campaign, Mormon candidate Mitt Romney felt compelled to address the suspicions still directed toward the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)— Kenneth C. Davis, par. 28

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - Even as late as 1960, Catholic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy felt compelled to make a major speech declaring that his loyalty was to America, not the pope. (And as recently as the 2008 Republican primary campaign, Mormon candidate Mitt Romney felt compelled to address the suspicions still directed toward the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)— Kenneth C. Davis, par. 28
2. I believe no one would have published the poetry of Black Phillis Wheatley, that grown woman who stayed with her chosen Black man.— June Jordan, par. 73

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - I believe no one would have published the poetry of Black Phillis Wheatley, that grown woman who stayed with her chosen Black man.— June Jordan, par. 73
3. For example, in 1996 Rose Hamid, a twelve-year veteran flight attendant with U.S. Air, became increasingly serious about her faith in the wake of some health problems and made the decision to wear a head scarf.— Diane L. Eck, par. 3

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - For example, in 1996 Rose Hamid, a twelve-year veteran flight attendant with U.S. Air, became increasingly serious about her faith in the wake of some health problems and made the decision to wear a head scarf.— Diane L. Eck, par. 3
4. In men, too, the same merciless perspicacity sometimes shows itself—men recognized to be more aloof and uninflammable than the general—men of special talent for the logical—sardonic men, cynics.— H. L. Mencken, par. 4

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - In men, too, the same merciless perspicacity sometimes shows itself—men recognized to be more aloof and uninflammable than the general—men of special talent for the logical—sardonic men, cynics.— H. L. Mencken, par. 4
5. Meet Phillis Wheatley, race traitor.— Henry Louis Gates Jr., par. 16

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - Meet Phillis Wheatley, race traitor.— Henry Louis Gates Jr., par. 16
6. Should it still be vociferated, “Your domestick employments are sufficient”—I would calmly ask, is it reasonable, that a candidate for immortality, for the joys of heaven, an intelligent being, who is to spend an eternity in contemplating the works of the Deity, should at present be so degraded, as to be allowed no other ideas, than those which are suggested by the mechanism of a pudding, or the sewing the seams of a garment?— Judith Sargent Murray, par. 4

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - Should it still be vociferated, “Your domestick employments are sufficient”—I would calmly ask, is it reasonable, that a candidate for immortality, for the joys of heaven, an intelligent being, who is to spend an eternity in contemplating the works of the Deity, should at present be so degraded, as to be allowed no other ideas, than those which are suggested by the mechanism of a pudding, or the sewing the seams of a garment?— Judith Sargent Murray, par. 4
7. Our vaunted system of “separation of powers” and “checks and balances”—a legacy of the founders’ mistrust of “factions”—means that we rarely have anything that can truly be described as a “government.”— Sanford Levinson, par. 4

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - Our vaunted system of “separation of powers” and “checks and balances”—a legacy of the founders’ mistrust of “factions”—means that we rarely have anything that can truly be described as a “government.”— Sanford Levinson, par. 4
8. And there is Wheatley’s letter to the Reverend Sampson Occom, “a converted Mohegan Indian Christian Minister” who was the eighteenth century’s most distinguished graduate from Moor’s Charity Indian School of Lebanon, Connecticut, which would relocate in 1770 to Hanover, New Hampshire, where it would be renamed after the Earl of Dartmouth (and its student body broadened, against many protests, to include white students).—Henry Louis Gates Jr., par. 9

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - And there is Wheatley’s letter to the Reverend Sampson Occom, “a converted Mohegan Indian Christian Minister” who was the eighteenth century’s most distinguished graduate from Moor’s Charity Indian School of Lebanon, Connecticut, which would relocate in 1770 to Hanover, New Hampshire, where it would be renamed after the Earl of Dartmouth (and its student body broadened, against many protests, to include white students).—Henry Louis Gates Jr., par. 9
9. In fact, the sentiment expressed in the Treaty of Tripoli—that the United States was not “founded on the Christian religion”—can hardly be reconciled with the way that politicians, historians, clergy, educators, and other writers perceived the United States in the first one hundred years of its existence.—John Fea, par. 3

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   Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - In fact, the sentiment expressed in the Treaty of Tripoli—that the United States was not “founded on the Christian religion”—can hardly be reconciled with the way that politicians, historians, clergy, educators, and other writers perceived the United States in the first one hundred years of its existence.—John Fea, par. 3
10. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.—Patrick Henry, par. 3

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    Exercise 5: Appositives: Each of the following comes from a selection in the chapter and includes one or more appositives. Identify the appositives, explain their effect, and then write a sentence of your own using that sentence as a model. - These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.—Patrick Henry, par. 3