Apposition / Punctuation Practice Exercises

4 Questions I By Schuck.jane on July 23, 2007

Practice exercises on apposition and punctuation in writing. Fill in the blank format. Please select the correct answer. Example sentences borrowed from Jim Burke and Edgar H. Schuster.

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1.	When appositives have commas inside them, what punctuation is used instead to enclose the appositive? Example: To her, the young man__a broad, six feet tall giant__seemed menacingly close.

A.	A pair of dashes

B.	semi-colons

colons

D.	parentheses

brackets

2.	What role does the dash play in the following sentence? Example: It was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the power I had - the ability to strike fear into others through my menacing visage.

A.	It separates the appositive from the rest of the sentence

B.	It puts special emphasis on the appositive

C.	Both A and C

3.	Please fill in the blank with an appropriate appositive that describes the subject of the sentence: Digital watches are invariably made of black rubber and perform a growing number of strange and interesting functions - _______.

4.	What does the following appositive describe in the sentence below? Example: A second ceremony is planned during the unveiling of "Tribute in Light," a temporary memorial consisting of two parallel light beams created by 88 searchlights.