Bahasa Inggris: Appositive

Student Number: 25214059

10. 60 Minutes the TV news magazine program featured a story on the popular singer Whitney Houston.

Punctuation: 60 Minutes, the TV news magazine program, featured a story on the popular singer, Whitney Houston.

Explanation: the TV news magazine program and Whitney Houston are the appositive, because it give more information about the "60 minutes" and the "popular singer"

5. The number of bones in an adult human, 206, is far fewer than the number of bones in a human infant.

Explanation: "far fewer than the number of bones in a human infant" is the appositive phrases, giving more essential information about the '206'. And also the appositive can't be a number if we back to the definition of appositive :

"An appositive is a noun, a noun phrase, or a noun clause which sits next to another noun to rename it or to describe it in another way." (grammar-monster.com)

Punctuation: The number of bones in an adult human is 206, far fewer than the number of bones in a human infant.

9. The weather on the coast (appear - appears) to be good this weekend.

The weather on the coast appears to be good this weekend.

Explanation: The weather is singular. If a singular sentence is followed by a verb, the verb must be added s or es.

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3. The women in the pool (swim-swims) well.
The women in the pool swims well.
If a singular sentence is followed by a verb, the verb must be added s or es.


7. He (cook-cooks) dinner for his family.
He cooks dinner for his family
“He” is a subject pronoun and “ Cooks” is a plural verb.

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