Answer: What the appositive "a Swedish astronomer" renames is Samantha Bernard.
Explanation:<u></u><u>An appositive is a noun or a noun phrase that is included in a sentence in order to rename a noun that is found next to it.</u> There are two types of appositives: essential appositives, which are not separated from the rest of the sentence, and nonessential appositives, which are found between commas and separated from the other elements in the sentence. In the case of this sentence, <u>"a Swedish astronomer" is a nonessential appositive and it is renaming the noun that it is beside it: Samantha Bernard. </u>
He is captured by a colonel who is son of Don Lupe that was killed by Juvencio. When some men are trampling on his small property he goes out to tell them not to do that when he is captured. He doesn't want to die and he says that he is not a threat to anybody because he is too old then the colonel tells his men to get Juvencio drunk.
