Read the sentence below and complete the instruction that follows. As a child, Maria Mitchell studied astronomy with her father William Mitchell, an amateur astronomer. Identify the word or phrase that the underlined appositive phrase renames.

An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that gives another name or description for a nearby noun. In this sentence, “an amateur astronomer” describes Maria Mitchell’s father, William Mitchell. It does not rename Maria, astronomy, or the time phrase “as a child.”

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