Question

Which sentence has an appositive in it? His mother, Alberta Williams King, was a teacher. He was an avid reader and skipped two grades at Booker T. Washington High School. His father was a minister and the son of a sharecropper. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

Answer 1

Answer:

His mother, Alberta Williams King, was a teacher

Explanation:

An apposition occurs when two words or phrases are beside each other in a sentence such that one describes the other.

The sentence, "His mother, Alberta Williams King, was a teacher" contains an appositive an the appositive is "His mother" as it describes the relationship between Alberta Williams and the speaker.