<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9dc5f7fe-8f9e-41c9-9226-461656b79d63/6C33A1CC-8332-4872-BE7A-7499FBCF44C8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/eduweb/grammar/course/punctuation/3_4g.htm" href="http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/eduweb/grammar/course/punctuation/3_4g.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ucalgary.ca</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/eduweb/grammar/course/punctuation/3_4g.htm"><P><STRONG>Rule #1</STRONG>: <FONT color="#810043">Restrictive appositives do not use commas.</FONT> </P><P> </P><PRE> My sister Jane studies in England. </PRE> The restrictive appositive "Jane" implies that I have one specific sister who studies in England, while my other sisters (Marta and Suzanne) study elsewhere. Therefore, "Jane" is essential to the meaning of the sentence. <P> <STRONG>Rule#2</STRONG>: <FONT color="#810043">Non-restrictive appositives must be enclosed in commas</FONT>. You can use dashes (sparingly!) instead of commas if you want to emphasize the appositive.</P><P> </P><PRE> My sister, Jane, studies in England. </PRE> The non-restrictive appositive implies that I only have one sister, whose name happens to be Jane, and she studies in England. Here "my sister" and "Jane" are equivalent phrases; they are in apposition to each other. The word "Jane" provides additional information about the phrase "my sister", and vice versa. If "Jane" is removed, the meaning of the sentence will not change.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6C33A1CC-8332-4872-BE7A-7499FBCF44C8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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