Imagine you want to improve your writing skills. Perhaps you would like to take an English test or use English in a business email.

Today on Everyday Grammar, we will talk about something that could help you: appositives.

We will explain the grammar rules behind appositives and demonstrate how to use them in sentences.

Everyday Grammar: What are appositives?

Let us begin with a few definitions.

Appositive definition

An appositive is a word or group of words that renames something else.

An appositive is often a noun or noun phrase that helps explain or identify another noun or a pronoun.

Take this sentence, for example:

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