The book is about her discovery of a young woman's diary, kept in New York in the 1930s, and its return to Florence Wolfson Howitt, its owner, at age 90. The diary was recovered from a steamer trunk found in a dumpster outside of Koppel's apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
So we know each children owns one pet but, we don't know which one. The equation gives us one clue, Xing does not own the hamster. However, this mean that he can either own the parrot or the hamster.
The question is asking for an additional information. When looking closer at the choices, we can already eliminate D. It does not give us a clue to who might own the iguana; it just shows that either Tiara or Raquel can own the iguana or hamster.
This is the same with A as well. Since Xing doesn't own the hamster but Tiara does, this just means that Raquel or Xing could own the Iguana.
B and E are not the answer as well. It says that Raquel and Tiara do not own the hamsters however, this doesn't give us the clue to who owns the iguana. With answer choice B, this would mean that Raquel owns the hamster however, it is not known who owns the parrot or the iguana. This is the same with choice E.
So the answer would be C. Since Racquel owns the parrot, than it is certain that Tiara owns the hamster since there is no way that Xing owns it and therefore, the one to own the hamster would be Xing.
Answer:
That depends on which part of the sentence is underlined (unfortunately, you didn't underline anything). So, let's go through all options:
A. independent clause - an independent clause is a sentence that can stand on its own because it has a subject and a predicate; in the example above, the independent clause would be: "The holiday dinners are always the best meals of the year."
B. dependent clause - a dependent clause is a clause that cannot stand on its own because it's missing a part; this is why it is always found next to an independent clause. In the example above, the dependent clause would be: "that my family makes."
C. prepositional phrase - a prepositional phrase is a combination of a preposition and a noun/noun phrase. In the example above, the prepositional phrase is "of the year."
D. run-on - a run on sentence is a sentence that is not properly connected; since the sentence above is correct, there are no run-on sentences here.