An efficient way of giving vitality to such writing is to use appositives and appositive phrases. On the other hand, an appositive phrase consists of an appositive and all of its modifiers. The appositives used in the sentences that follow are indicated in italics: "My office assistant Joanna took the day off yesterday." It should now be clear that an appositive or appositive phrase may either be essential or non-essential to a sentence. Read this essay and listen to its voice recording in The Manila Times: "Appositives as open secret to more engaging writing"Next, April 27, 2023: "The empathic forms and inverted sentences"Visit Jose Carillo's English Forum, http://josecarilloforum.com.
