Define or describe nouns with appositives

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Define or describe nouns with appositives

May 03, 2016

Appositives are an excellent addition to students’ expository writing. Whenever they use a specific term or vocabulary word, they can insert an explanation or synonym. This not only adds variety to the sentence types, but it also demonstrates a sense of audience. The student is subliminally saying to the reader…You may not be as smart as I am and know all the big words I’m using, so let me define them for you.

Reveal examples of 8 different types of definition details.
Provide students with various phrases to include definition details in their writing.
A variety of punctuation marks can accompany definition details within a sentence.