A nonrestrictive modifier adds information that is not essential for the reader to understand the sentence. In case the nonrestrictive modifier is eliminated, the meaning would remain the same. Only nonrestrictive modifiers are separated by commas. Taking this into account, the sentences that contain correctly punctuated nonrestrictive modifiers are:
- My oldest sister, Maria, is a pilot - If we remove <em>Maria</em>, we can still identify which sister we are talking about.
- My two best friends, Tory and Monica, met me at the movies - If we remove <em>Tory and Monica</em>, we can still identify which two people we are referring to.
- Bulldogs, which I love, are the cutest! - If we remove <em>which I love</em>, we can still identify which dogs we are talking about.
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b) to show that technology prevents people from directly experiencing major events.
Explanation:
The Internet and mobile technologies seem to be slowly but surely undermining the depth of human connection, leading people to feel increasingly cut off from the world around them.
The given line above was said by King Nestor from an ancient Greek poem, The Odyssey by Homer. This ancient poem is about Odysseus, a Greek hero, on his journey back home after Troy has fallen. It took him ten years to be back to his family, and during his absence, they thought he died.
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Answer:
C)
Explanation:
A) one day he'll take his drops and keep strictly to his diet and go to bed in good time, but the next day unless I watch him he'll suddenly forget his medicine, eat sturgeon-which is forbidden-and sit up playing cards till one -clock in the morning.
B) well, even if I hadn't stayed up, this pain would have kept me awake.
C) praskovya fedororvna's attitude to ivan ilyich's illness, as she expressed it both to others and to him, was that it was his own fault and was another of the annoyances he caused her.
D) at the law courts too, ivan ilyich noticed, or thought he noticed, a strange attitude towards himself. It sometimes seemed to him that people were watching him inquisitively as a man whose place might soon be vacant.
E) as if the awful, horrible, and unheard-of thing that was going on within him, incessantly gnawing at him and irresistibly drawing him away, was a very agreeable subject for jests.