Which provides the BEST description of the underlined phrase?

Roger, a hot-tempered football player, charged the referee and tried to tackle the poor man.
A) a verb form that is used as an adjective to describe Roger
B) a noun phrase that functions as the subject of the sentence
C) a verb form that is used as an adverb to explain Roger's behavior
Eliminate
D) an appositive phrase that describes another noun or pronoun in the sentence

a hot-tempered football player is underlined

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Which provides the BEST description of the underlined phrase?

Roger, a hot-tempered football player, charged the referee and tried to tackle the poor man.
A) a verb form that is used as an adjective to describe Roger
B) a noun phrase that functions as the subject of the sentence
C) a verb form that is used as an adverb to explain Roger's behavior
Eliminate
D) an appositive phrase that describes another noun or pronoun in the sentence

a hot-tempered football player is underlined

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haydenirwin haydenirwin · Answer 1 · 2016-12-14T20:46:07+01:00

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14-12-2016

The noun it describes is Roger so the correct answer is D. an appositive phrase that describes another noun or pronoun in the sentence.

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Answer: D) an appositive phrase that describes another noun or pronoun in the sentence.

Explanation: An appositive is a literary device that consists in writing a noun phrase or a noun that defines or explains another noun, which it follows. In the given sentence we can see an example of an appositive in the phrase "a hot-tempered football player", this words form a noun phrase that is defining (explaining) the proper noun "Roger" that is placed just before the noun phrase, so the correct answer is option D.