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Assignment Objective:
Students will practice the use of a key term, appositives, within a sentence structure.
Connection to Module:
Understand the relationship between meaning and language manipulation and between language and logic.
Steps:
Appositives Exercise:
Combine the following sets of sentences by reducing one or more sentences to appositives.
Livermore has long been the destination of America's adventurous young. It is a city of danger and opportunity.
Taylor Swift has earned billions of dollars singing in concerts and acting in movies. She is known as the better half of the Swift/Kelce duo.
People have different ideas about the meaning of poverty. It is a condition that to some suggests laziness, and to some a state of unwarranted misery.
Writing ability can have far-reaching effects on a college graduate's future. Writing is the ability to generate and organize ideas, compose sentences, and revise paragraphs.
Advertising is all over the internet. The internet is an invention of the U.S. military industrial complex. Advertising has saturated our lives to the point of banality.
Now, write a sentence with an appositive about your major, your job, or another interest, being sure to include a related technical term for the appositive.