Question

help plz

Mike, an architect, won the commission for the new office building.

Which of these correctly identifies the appositive in the sentence?

Mike
an architect
the commission
office

Answer 1

im terrible with appositived

Answer 2

Appositive is used to replaced a noun.. for example "The insect, a spider, crawls under my bed". The appositive here is "a spider" .

Answer 3

not really replace, sorry about my wording. I mean rename not replace.

So from the example i gave above, which do you think is the appositive in your sentence?

Answer 4

an architect?

Answer 5

right :) it renames Mike

Answer 6

thanks :)