Appositives Worksheets

Start off your appositives and appositive phrase practice with this worksheet. Seven of twelve sentences contain an appositive. Identify which ones they are. Be careful; commas alone won't give them away!

Nonrestrictive (nonessential) and restrictive (essential) appositives are punctuated differently in sentences. Identify the appositive phrase examples with answers provided on a separate key.

Use this free appositives worksheet to teach your learners about the essential parts of an appositive. It explains the two kinds of appositives with models, then asks students to identify appositives and their antecedents in ten examples.

The nonrestrictive examples on this appositive phrase worksheet aren't just offset by commas, but colons, em dashes, and parentheses too! Students must identify the restrictive or nonrestrictive appositive in each sentence, underline it, and circle its antecedent.

This fun appositive phrase worksheet uses 14 nonrestrictive phrases (and 1 nonrestrictive word!) related to fossils. Depending on their placement in each sentence, they must have one or commas added to offset them.

Teach the punctuation differences between restrictive and nonrestrictive words and phrases with this printable appositive worksheet. Includes labeled explanations and 8 practice questions.

Read through the 15 sentences on this appositives worksheet, decide whether an essential or nonessential appositive is used, and then add any necessary commas that are missing.

This appositive worksheet focuses on creating original appositive words and/or phrases for underlined antecedents. Students can refer to the explanation and example at the top of the sheet before revising the sentences.

Looking for more appositives and appositive phrases practice? Students must come up with five more nonrestrictive and two more restrictive appositives to add to existing sentences.

What is an appositive? This free anchor chart includes a basic definition and four labeled examples of sentences with nonrestrictive appositives in different locations. One example demonstrates how appositives can be used to join together two short, choppy sentences.

Learn how to punctuate appositive sentences with this reference sheet. Color-coded examples show both restrictive and nonrestrictive appositives in sentences and explain how punctuation (or lack thereof) can completely change their meaning.

Enhance your appositives practice with this class set of 30 task cards. Question types include: identifying appositives in sentences, combining sentences using an appositive, adding one or two commas to offset nonrestrictive appositives, and writing appositives for given antecedents.

If you're wondering how to diagram an appositive, look no further! Appositive words or phrases are placed in parentheses, and the rest of the sentence is diagrammed as normal. (Extra-long phrases sometimes need a whole separate line extending from the parenthetical to fit properly!)