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Our family enjoys stargazing with our telescope, a gift from my grandfather, when we go camping.

Identify the nonessential appositive phrase.
a gift from my grandfather
our family
with our telescope
when we go camping

User Alwinlin
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the correct answer is : the telescope

User Yordan Pavlov
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An appositive phrase "renames" a noun: here the telescope is being "renamed" as "the gift from my grandfather", and this is also the nonessential appositive phrase. (as in: it can be left out!)


so: a gift from my grandfather


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