The correct answer is A. It is difficult to understand the part of "seven years' transportation to America". It seems to me that you should use a passive structure so as to place the kind of sentences that English courts were allowed to give first, and after mention that the first Penal Transportation Act was the one which introduced this change. The other answers do not apply to this sentence, there are no puntuation and spelling mistakes, and there are no unnecessary words.
The newspaper editorial... As it is more of a public thing
Answer: As for this question im thinking C
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cute:) did you come up with that?
I believe the answer would be Bill Gates. An appositive is a noun that renames a noun right beside it. In this case, "Bill Gates" is renaming "One of the richest men in the world."