Combine Sentences With Appositives

Start with Appositives so students see where commas go. Use the combining sheet next, and connect it to Combine Choppy Sentences Three Ways.

Combine 6 sentence pairs with an appositive, like Kenji, my best friend, builds model rockets. An appositive is a noun phrase that renames the noun beside it, so two short sentences about the same thing can often become one. The directions on the page read: Combine each pair into one sentence. Turn one sentence into an appositive and set it off with commas. Write the new sentence on the lines. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade sentences, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with appositives. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

An appositive is a noun phrase that renames the noun right before it. In Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has dozens of moons, the appositive is the largest planet in our solar system.

Commas set off an appositive that adds extra information. When the appositive ends the sentence, only one comma is needed, as in I packed my favorite snack, a bag of green grapes.

Turn one sentence into a noun phrase and place it after the noun it renames. Pluto is a dwarf planet. Pluto was once called the ninth planet. becomes Pluto, a dwarf planet, was once called the ninth planet.