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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.

Aa verb form that is used as an adjective to describe Roger
Ba noun phrase that functions as the subject of the sentence
Ca verb form that is used as an adverb to explain Roger's behavior

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Dan appositive phrase that describes another noun or pronoun in the sentence

a hot-tempered football player is underlined

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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.  

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