Identify the sentence that contains an appositive. a. the poet keats studied to become a doctor. b. the poet, after years of study, left school for a quiet life. c. having studied to become a doctor, keats instead became a poet. d. to write poems, keats found, takes dedication.

The sentence that contains an appositive is A. The poet Keats studied to become a doctor.

Explanation: An appositive is a noun or pronoun that renames another noun or pronoun which comes immediately before or after the appositive. In sentence A., the appositive is "Keats", which is a proper noun renaming the noun that precedes it: "poet". In most cases, appositives are separated from the rest of the elements of the sentence by means of a comma; however, in sentence A, the appositive has not been placed between commas. In other words, the appositive in A. is restrictive because the information provided by it is essential: if the appositive is removed, the meaning of the sentence changes.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

um, what am i suppose to answer here? it just said that he will studied hared because of a grade in spanish.