Winnie Tang teaches how appositives work: noun phrases placed next to another noun to add extra information, usually set off by commas. She shows examples from her story "Amber and the Browbeating Bully" and explains how appositives help readers visualize events and enrich storytelling.
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To engage your reader even more and help them visualize what is happening, you could give them some bonus information. What does this look like? Well, let's find out. Hi everyone, this is Winnie or Miss Tang. Today we are learning to use appositives and commas. This is because appositives and commas help us provide bonus information to our audience, and commas also help us separate our phrases and our clauses. Our success criteria today include: Great is I can identify where appositives are in this sentence. Amazing is can you identify when commas have been used to show this bonus information in the form of an appositive? And fabulous, can you experiment with the placement of commas before and after the appositive? What are appositives? Well, first of all, let's have a look at what the word appositive oppose means. Oh, some people can confuse this with the word oppose, but we are talking about appose. Appose means next to or side by side. Appositives usually come after the noun or the noun phrase, or you could say next to the noun or noun phrase. They provide extra information and they are also placed in between commas. This is an example from a narrative that I have written called Amber and the Browbeating Bully, and this is actually a prequel to the book that my friend and I are writing. Here are some examples of appositives. Liars like Amber were constantly being tossed upwards during the stunts in the cheerleading routine. So you can see that liars and then like Amber— the like Amber is the appositive in this sentence because we are giving the audience bonus information. This is information that you don't have to include in your sentence, but it's bonus information that you give to your audience to give them some more information. So here, the reason why I put "like Amber" inside as the positive in this sentence to show that Amber is a flyer and she's the kind of cheerleader that gets thrown up in the cheerleading routine. Another example is, "How was cheer practice?" called Amber's dad, Rufus, from the kitchen. So we don't have to say Rufus. We could just say called Amber's dad from the kitchen, and that would be fine. But we are adding in that appositive in there because we want to tell the audience his name. So I'm introducing Rufus as Amber's dad's name. So appositives are not essential. They give bonus information, so you don't need them in a sentence, but they do give the audience additional information which can further engage them and help them visualize what is happening in the story. Okay, now it's your turn. Can you find appositives in the book that you are reading? Can you figure out and identify their purpose? Why did the author add this in? And can you write your own sentences with the positives? Here is my grammar and punctuation playlist right here. See you in my next video. Bye!
