Name: ____________________________________________________________

Pd._________

Directions: Cut and paste the appositive phrases where they fit in each sentence. Draw an arrow to the noun that it describes.

1. The insect, ____________________, is crawling across the kitchen table. 2. During the dinner conversation, Clifford, __________________________, spewed mashed potatoes like an erupting volcano. 3. ____________________________, Robbie charged the umpire and threw the racket across the court. 4. Rosco, _____________________, chews holes in the living room carpeting as if he were still a puppy. 5. When my friend _________________ needs a pencil, he always asks his classmate ___________. 6. Earth, _______________________________ , is sometimes called the third rock from the sun. 7. ___________________________________, my grandmother could not say no to a stray animal that needed a home.

Jane a large cockroach

a beagle Frank

a woman with a soft spot in her heart for animals a hot-tempered tennis player a beagle the only planet in our galaxy known to support life

the messiest eater at the table