Provides more information about a noun Most often appears directly after the noun it identifies or renames Arizona Bill The Great Benefactor of Mankind toured Oklahoma with herbal cures and a powerful liniment ID: 310220
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Appositive phrases
Provides more information about a noun.
Most often appears directly after the noun it identifies or renames:
Arizona Bill,
"The Great Benefactor of Mankind,"
toured Oklahoma with herbal cures and a powerful liniment.
Commas
are used to separate phrase from rest of sentence!
May appear in front of a word that it identifies:
A dark wedge,
the eagle hurtled earthward at nearly 200 miles per hour.Slide2
Make a three column graph labeled with the following:
semicolons; colons: hyphens-
1. Used after a prefix that is followed by a proper noun or adjective
2. Combines two independent clauses
3. Used to write a fraction as an adjective
4. Used on warning labels
5. separates words when dropping down to next line on composition
6. Used after the salutation in a business letter
7. Used to separate words in a compound noun
8. Separates hour from minutes
9. Used before a
conjunctive adverb
10.Used to introduce list of items
11. Used to separate two-word numbersSlide3
Relative Pronouns
Begins a subordinate clause and connects it to another idea in the same sentence.
There are five relative pronouns:
that
which
who whom whose
Independent clause
Subordinate
clause
Here is the earring
that
Tara lost.
She is a painter
who
has an unusual talent.
Is this the woman
whom
you saw earlier?
She
is the one
whose
house has a new alarm.Slide4
Conjunctive adverbs
Used to
connect complete ideas (compound sentence) or to
transition
by showing comparisons, contrasts, or results.
Use a ; BEFORE the word and a , AFTERThat movie was great; however,
I still prefer the book.
accordingly
consequently
indeed
otherwise
again
finally
instead
then
also
furthermore
moreover
therefore
besides
however
nevertheless
thus