What kind of phrase is "a former drug-addict"? Sam Smith, a former drug-addict who recently spoke to the youth group, excels at motivating young people. Options: prepositional phrase participial phrase appositive phrase gerund phrase infinitive phrase absolute phrase

Appositive phrase

Explanation:

In the text presented in the question aciama, the clause "a former drug-addict" is an appositive phrase. Appositive phrase is a type of clause that aims to explain something, or bring extra information, about the previously mentioned term, which is usually a pronoun or a noun. As we can see in the text presented above, the clause "a former drug-addict" has been added in the text, to show extra information about "Sam Smith," which was quoted earlier.

However, we must emphasize that the text has a grammatical error. This is because every appositive phrase must be written in the middle of two commas and the text is not showing this.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.