On this page you'll find answers to the exercises on page one, Sentence Building With Appositives. Keep in mind that in many cases more than one combination is possible.
- Monroe and I strolled through the graveyard, the most peaceful spot in town.
- St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers, was never married.
- We were waiting outside the prison cells, a row of sheds fronted with double bars, like small animal cages.
(George Orwell, "A Hanging") - Outside beneath my window, my father whistled for Reggie, our English setter.
- We saw the stream in the valley, black and halted, a tarred path through the wilderness.
(Laurie Lee, "Winter and Summer") - We arrived at a small group of peasant houses, low yellow constructions with dried-mud walls and straw roofs.
(Alberto Moravia, Lobster Land: A Traveler in China) - A great many old people came and knelt around us and prayed, old women with jet-black faces and old men with work-gnarled hands.
(Langston Hughes, "Salvation") - One of the Cratchet girls had borrowed the books, a hatchet-faced, thin, eager, transplanted Cockney girl with a frenzy for reading.
(Wallace Stegner, Wolf Willow) - It was the kind of home that gathers memories like dust, a place filled with laughter and play and pain and hurt and ghosts and games.
(Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream) - I led a raid on the small, shabby grocery of Barba Nikos, a short sinewy Greek who walked with a slight limp and sported a flaring, handlebar moustache.
(Harry Mark Petrakis, Stelmark: A Family Recollection)
