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phoenixcollege<learningcenter<owl<punctuation;commas<rule5
 COMMAS |
| Rule #5 Commas and Appositives |
Rule: Use commas with nonrestrictive appositives.
An appositive is a word group which adds information about
another noun or pronoun. The word group usually follows the word it describes.
When the appositive is not needed for identification, it is called nonrestrictive.
The word group is not a clause because it doesn't have a verb.
Example: Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, is in the desert.
The capital of Arizona is an appositive which requires commas because there is only one Phoenix. The appositive is not needed for identification.
The position of the appositive can come at
the end of the sentence.
Then only one comma is needed.
Example: Camelback Mountain is in Phoenix, the capital of Arizona.
*Hint: Know the difference between restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives.
*Restrictive- Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea is a masterpiece.
Commas are not needed because Hemingway wrote many novels. The title is necessary to know which one is being discussed.
*Nonrestrictive- William Shakespeare, a great writer, was from England.
Commas are needed because the appositive just tells extra information.
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