What type of clause or phrase is italicized in the sentence below?
The play, a three-act farce, amused everyone.
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What is italicized?
What do you think it is?
(three-act farce) and adjective clause
It's not a clause because it doesn't have a subject and verb.
What type of phrase do you think it is?
present participial phrase
A present participle is a verb form and ends in -ing.
That phrase is not a participial phrase.
appositive
adverb clause
infinitive
adjective clause
present participial phrase
To identify the type of clause or phrase that is italicized in the given sentence, we need to look for any words or group of words that are set apart by commas. In this case, the phrase "a three-act farce" is set off by commas.
The phrase "a three-act farce" functions as an appositive phrase. An appositive phrase provides additional information or description about a noun or pronoun that precedes it. In this sentence, "a three-act farce" provides further details about the noun "play." It describes what kind of play it is.
To summarize, the phrase "a three-act farce" is an appositive phrase in the given sentence.