Exercise 7. Point out the apposition and say whether it is close or loose.

1. Maria, the mother had not taken off her shawl. 2. One of our number, a round-faced, curly-haired, little man of about fourty glared at him aggressively. 3. Thre are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford. 4. You look all right, Uncle Soames. 5. James, a slow and through eater, stopped the process of mastication. 6. He felt lost, alone in the room with that pale spirit of a woman. 7. But the doctor- a family physician well past middle age – was not impressed. 8. They, the professors, were right in their literary judgement. 9.In consequence neither Oscar nor his sister Martha had any too much education or decent social experience of any kind. 10. But now he had seen that world , possible and real, with a flower of a woman.

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