Language and Identity
Advanced English
Fall 1999
Tokyo International University of America

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Name or names: _______________________________________________

Add your own non-restrictive (non-essential) noun appositives:

The Executive Director of TIUA, _________________________, speaks two languages, ____________ and Spanish.

My friend, a ______________________________ , is also a student at TIU, _________________________________.

Salem, ______________________________, is located in Oregon, ______________________________.

Soccer, ______________________________ , is not as popular as baseball in the United States.

Combine these sentences using appositives. Re-write the sentences:

Indigenous languages are doomed, according to some linguists. Indigenous languages are those spoken by the first inhabitants of an area.

 

 

 

ASL is a complete language that takes many years to learn and has a grammar as complex as any other language. ASL means American Sign Language.

 

 

 

Write two of of your own sentences using noun appositives. The sentences must be at least 10 words long.