A. Underline the appositives in the following sentences,and then punctuate them.Remember that appositives follow the nouns they describe.
1. The class is reading King Lear one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.
2. My favorite soup is Tom Yam soup a Thai soup.
3. The Niagara region the center of Ontario’s wine industry offers wine-tasting tours to visitors.
B.规则(Rules)
Rule l.解释名词意义的短语叫同位语,它们紧接在需解释的名词后,必须用逗号:
Anna Sutherland Bissel, the inventor of the carpet sweeper,went on to manage the Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co.
Friday is named for Frigg,a goddess of Scandinavian mythology.
Rule 2.如果短语对名词的意义理解很有必要,则不用逗号将它们分隔开来。请比较:
The novel Great Expectations is considered by many critics to be Charles Dickens’ greatest work.(novel和Expectations无逗号,因为狄更斯的小说很多,我们需要知道是那一本)
Charles Dickens’ fourteenth novel, Great Expectations,is considered by many critics to be his greatest work.(novel和Expectations有逗号,因为已知道是狄更斯的 fourteenth novel)
Rule 3.多数单个词同位语对名词的意义都是必要的,所以它们之间不用逗号:
My brother joe is married; my other brothers are single.
The word globoid means“shaped like a globe”.
Certain tones of the color pink are known to decrease anxiety.
C.
1.Add commas to the following sentences wherever they are necessary.
l. Many holidays around the world honor children the world’s hope for the future.
2. Internatlonal Children’s Book Day falls on April 2nd the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen.
3. Andersen a nineteenth--century Danish writer is famous for his fairy tales.
4. His story "The Little Mermaid" inspired the famous mermaid statue in Copenhagen harbor.
5. March 3rd in Japan is Hina Matsuri a doll festival for girls. Each girl displays her Hina Matsuri dolls a fifteen--member representation of the Japanese imperial court.
6. The April 23rd Children's Day holiday in Turkey gives students a chance to participate in national and local government.
7. Children also have free ice cream and free movies special privileges for this day only.
8. Tano a Korean spring festival used to be an agricultural holiday but is now a holiday for children.
9. In October Samoan children receive new clothes and new books on White Sunday their special holiday.
10. The holiday is called White Sunday because one of the gifts new clothes to wear to church is usually white.
II. Combine the following pairs of sentences into a third sentence. Use information from the second sentence to create an appositive in the first sentence.
1. a. Tourism attracts many visitors to Vancouver.
b. Tourism is a leading industry in the city.
c.
2. a. Douglas Coupland's first novel became a best seller.
b. His first novel was Generation X.
c.
3. a. The word is a trademark and should be capitalized.
b. The word is Xerox.
c.
4. a. The month of July is named for Julius Caesar.