The answer is B. Hope this helps :)
<span>the answer is: The reader learns both that the narrator has an older brother, and his brother and John are older.
Appositive phrase is a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. We can see that the writer directly shares the information about his brother by including the information</span><span />
In A: it should be "I was" not "I were".
In B: it should be "lately you appear" not "you appears"
in C: this is correct! the subject is in agreement with the verb, and this is the correct answer.
in D: it should be "you are"
