Nouns as Appositives Answers
Directions:
Underline the complete appositives in the sentences below.
Then draw a line through the noun the appositive renames or explains.
Example:
The Zarton telescope, a very expensive instrument,
is poorly balanced.
1.
The earth, the fifth largest planet, circles the sun at an
average distance of 93 million miles.
2.
The explosion of the Hindenburg,
an enormous German dirigible, in 1937 was the first disaster to be
documented in photographs.
3.
There are more than twenty mountains over 20,000 feet high in the Himalayas,
the greatest concentration of high mountains in the world.
4.
The geodesic dome, a structure invented by R. Buckminster
Fuller, is very light but very strong.
5.
Hair conditioners, products intended to make hair easier to
manage, work by coating each strand of hair with a thin film.
6.
The Holocaust, the destruction of approximately 6 million Jews
by the Nazis, lasted from 1933 until 1945.
7.
On automobile trips restless children may be interested in Travel
Tapes, recordings describing the history and geology of the area through
which they are riding.
8.
Some people prefer Belgian waffles, big waffles with large,
deep indentations, to ordinary waffles.
9.
The Armory Show, an art exhibit held in New York in 1913,
introduced the people of the United States to modern European art.
10.
In 1974 Patricia Hearst, the daughter of publisher Randolph
Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army.