Directions: Highlight the 10 appositives or appositive phrases in the following paragraph. Remember an appositive is a word that renames or gives more information about the noun in front of it. An appositive phrase is a group of words that describe or give information about the noun in front of it.

The local florist and his wife had a sense of humor when naming
their children, three daughters and a son. Their eldest daughter,
Lilly, didn’t mind being named after a flower. Sylvia, her best friend,
agreed that Lilly was a normal girl’s name. By the time their second
daughter was born, the florist and his wife, a creative couple, used an unusual name. They named her after the Chrysanthemum, the florist’s favorite flower. Although it was a different name, she didn’t really mind it either. Most of her friends just called her Chrissy. By the time daughter number three arrived, her parents decided to be truly unique. They named her Delphinium. This youngest daughter, a future biologist, was called Della by her friends. When they had their last child, a son,
they scratched their heads and didn’t know what to do. They couldn’t think of a good blooming plant name for a boy. Looking around the floral shop, the florist’s eyes alit on something that gave him an idea. The unlikely plant, a cactus, made the florist think of a name more suited for a boy. They brought their newborn son, Saguaro, home and showed him to his three sisters. Saguaro, youngest of the florist’s children, turned out to be a handsome young man with no thorns at all!