Question

Read the passage from "One of These Days" by Gabriel Garcia

Marquez:

"Monday dawned warm and rainless. Aurelio Escovar, a dentist without
a degree, and a very early riser, opened his office at six. He took some
false teeth, still mounted in their plaster mold, out of the glass case and
put on the table a fistful of instruments which he arranged in size order,
as if they were on display. He wore a collarless striped shirt, closed at
the neck with a golden stud, and pants held up by suspenders. He was
erect and skinny, with a look that rarely corresponded to the situation,
the way deaf people have of looking."
All of the following excerpts are used as appositive phrases except...

Select one:

- "still mounted in their plastic mold"

- "With a look that rarely corresponded to the situation"

- "He wore a collarless striped shirt
- a dentist without a degree

Answer 1

"With a look that rarely corresponded to the situation"

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the passage from "One of These Days" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the movements and actions of a dentist Aurelio Escovar is narrated and how he carefully places his tools and instruments on the table.

Therefore, all of the following excerpts are used as appositive phrases except the statement, "With a look that rarely corresponded to the situation".

This is because, an appositive phrase is a set of words that are placed side by side with its modifier and the above statement is not placed together with a modifier.