EXERCISE 1

● EXERCISE 1 ●

Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details.

  1. My father, a truly exceptional man, worked at an ordinary job and was unknown outside the small town where he lived.

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    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 1: - Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details. - My father, a truly exceptional man, worked at an ordinary job and was unknown outside the small town where he lived.
  2. His rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted.

    —J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 1: - Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details. - His rage passes description—the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted. —J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
  3. [W. E. B.] DuBois saw the grandeur and degradation in a single unifying thought—slavery was the West’s tragic flaw; yet it was tragic precisely because of the greatness of the civilization that encompassed it.

    —Dinesh D’Souza, “Equality and the Classics”

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    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 1: - Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details. - [W. E. B.] DuBois saw the grandeur and degradation in a single unifying thought—slavery was the West’s tragic flaw; yet it was tragic precisely because of the greatness of the civilization that encompassed it. —Dinesh D’Souza, “Equality and the Classics”
  4. The eruptions in the early part of our century—the time of world wars and emergent modernity—were premonitions of a sort.

    —Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies

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    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 1: - Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details. - The eruptions in the early part of our century—the time of world wars and emergent modernity—were premonitions of a sort. —Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies
  5. Evidently I need this starting point—the world as it appeared before people bent it to their myriad plans—from which to begin dreaming up my own myriad, imaginary hominid agendas.

    —Barbara Kingsolver, “Knowing Our Place”

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    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 1: - Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details. - Evidently I need this starting point—the world as it appeared before people bent it to their myriad plans—from which to begin dreaming up my own myriad, imaginary hominid agendas. —Barbara Kingsolver, “Knowing Our Place”
  6. The war America waged in Vietnam, the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras, introduced the home front to new tele-intimacy with death and destruction.

    —Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 1: - Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details. - The war America waged in Vietnam, the first to be witnessed day after day by television cameras, introduced the home front to new tele-intimacy with death and destruction. —Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
  7. The restaurant’s signature dish, a tantalizing fish taco, is also one of the least expensive entrees on the menu.

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    uZxg83qH9uNZ3NUqyV8wT7hdxc9/5MQeJeZaOsQNhvI0w6Xk3EOeDQ1B873FE1s7
    Chapter 5 - EXERCISE 1: - Identify the appositive in each of the following sentences and the word or phrase it details. - The restaurant’s signature dish, a tantalizing fish taco, is also one of the least expensive entrees on the menu.