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My colleague Rina leads the accessibility review.
8 Appositive Examples
Use these examples to study structure, specificity, tone, and variation. They are demonstrations—not claims about a real person or organization unless the example itself makes that explicit.
Before you copy
What to notice in the examples
A strong appositive adds useful identification without interrupting the sentence unnecessarily, and commas are used only when the renaming information is nonessential to identifying the noun.
- Use an appositive to rename a nearby noun.
- Set off nonessential appositives with commas.
- Do not surround essential appositives with commas.
- Keep the appositive adjacent to the noun it explains.
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Rina, my colleague, leads the accessibility review.
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The novel Beloved is often discussed in courses on memory and history.
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Toni Morrison’s novel, Beloved, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1988.
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Our first stop, the central archive, closes at five.
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The engineer Arjun Patel will present the findings.
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The final requirement, a signed consent form, must be submitted separately.
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Her favorite tool, a small mechanical pencil, has lasted for years.
Keep the underlying decision or pattern, then replace the subject, evidence, relationship, constraints, and tone with details that belong to your situation. If your final line still works after swapping only one noun, it may be too close to the example.