appositives and appositive phrase

• It provides additional information about the noun it follows
• an appositive is a noun or a pronoun that appears next to another noun or pronoun and identifies renames,or explains it
• For example:

  • My friend John, a talented musician, played the guitar at the party.

  In this sentence, "John" is the appositive, providing additional information about "my friend."
• For example:

  • The novel, a classic work of literature, has been translated into many languages.

  Here, "a classic work of literature" is an appositive phrase, further describing "the novel."
• when an appositive or an appositive phrase is nonessential, or can be removed without altering the basic meaning of a sentence, it is set off with a comma.
• when an appositive or an appositive phrase is essential to the meaning of a sentence, commas are not used
• an appositive or an appositive phrase is a great way to combine two short, choppy sentences into one more-effective sentence. In the example below, two sentences are combined into one sentence by using appositive phrase.
• before: eyad's car is an old station wagon. eyad's car cannot handle icy roads

  after : eyad's car, an old station wagon, cannot handle icy roads