EXCERCISE III

I. Highlight and punctuate the appositives in the following sentences. Not all require punctuation.

6. Sweetbriar, a company known throughout the South, is considering a nationwide advertising campaign.

    Reason: This sentence has one appositive that comes after the subject and it is describing the subject

II. Highlight and punctuate the appositives in the following sentences. Not all require punctuation.

7. Six hundred people died in the San Fransisco earthquake of 1906, one of the nation’s worst disasters.

     Reason: This sentence has one appositive that comes after the subject and it is describing the subject

III. Write the best answer!

  5. The football players run five miles every day.

      Reason:  the reason why the answer is “run” not “runs” its because the subject in the sentence above is in a plural form. In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns add an s to the singular form; verbs remove the s from the singular form.

  10. The center on the basketball team bounces the ball too high.

      Reason: the reason why the answer is “bounces” not “bounce” its because the subject in the sentence above is in a singular form. In the present tense, nouns and verbs form plurals in opposite ways: nouns add an s to the singular form; verbs remove the s from the singular form.