Read the sentence. My father, an electrical engineer , patiently explained the confusing material in my science textbook. The underlined words are a(n)

“An electrical engineer” renames and gives more information about “my father,” so it is an appositive phrase. It is set off by commas because it adds extra information rather than identifying which father is meant. It is not a clause because it has no subject-and-verb combination.

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