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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.
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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.

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Hot-tempered. is this what you where looking for ?
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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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