This weekend was more than fun for me. Dad’s weekend, two
days that usually include the student’s dad in activities, consisted of laying
low and enjoying the events that WSU athletics had provided for us [Appositive
punctuated with commas]. Although the football game was the highlight of
our weekend, my Dad and brothers that attended were staying in our fifth wheel
in the parking lot of Walmart. The store Walmart (Redneck’s Paradise according to my roommate) seemed
to be the place to be after my brothers and I realized there were close to
seventy other campers and RVs [Appositive punctuated with parentheses].
Although my friends and I seem to identify Walmart as the place to go to find
some wacky people, it made my family’s weekend full of fun and free entertainment
in the parking lot. The
parking lot, filled with campers and tailgaters, seemed to get less fun as this
Sunday afternoon started to loom on [Past participle]. As the day loomed
on, and trailers started to pull out from Walmart, I realized that my dad’s
weekend with my family was nearly over. What I did to remove this realization
was very fun for my nine-year-old brother, play catch with the football. Even
though this was fun and games for most of the time, being the oldest of three
younger brothers means that some kind of argument will arise. For example, I
had to settle an argument of who can throw the best kind of spiral. The quickest and best throws - the
ones that create the nice tight spiral - were not easy for my nine-year-old
brother, Mac, who was eager to learn how to throw the football so good
[Appositive punctuated with dashes AND adjectives out of order]. Near
the end of all the food we ate, the football we watched, and the games we
played, it was time for my family to go home. Although most people love the
location of small town Pullman, my family dreads that it is nearly a six-hour
drive away. Once the fifth
wheel was all packed up and we all said our goodbyes, my family was off towards
the place that I call home, Vancouver, Washington; home to many of the Westside
cougars! [Appositive punctuated with a
colon].
Appositives punctuated 4 ways:
ReplyDeleteYES --1 set off by parenthesis
YES--1 set off by dashes
OKAY--1 set off by colon (you have a semicolon here, but I think that's a typo)
YES—1 set off by commas
YES --1 Participial Phrase— either past or present participle okay, but remember that this is a brush stroke added onto a main sentence, which means that if your participle is part of the main verb, it's not a brush stroke.
NO--1 example Adjectives Out-Of-Order