We wrote a summary of the Storyworks narrative nonfiction story “The Amazing Life of Flora the Elephant.” But some of our sentences need help! For each sentence we wrote below, choose the correct way to revise it. 

Here’s what to look for: We used a kind of description of the subject in each sentence called an appositive.

  • An appositive is a phrase that renames a noun in another way. For example, “Mrs. Brewer, my math teacher, gives a lot of homework. Ana, my friend who always gets A’s in math, helps me study.”
  • An appositive is set off by commas before and after it. 

We wrote a summary of the Storyworks narrative nonfiction story “The Amazing Life of Flora the Elephant.” But some of our sentences need help! For each sentence we wrote below, choose the correct way to revise it. 

Here’s what to look for: We used a kind of description of the subject in each sentence called an appositive.

  • An appositive is a phrase that renames a noun in another way. For example, “Mrs. Brewer, my math teacher, gives a lot of homework. Ana, my friend who always gets A’s in math, helps me study.”
  • An appositive is set off by commas before and after it.