C. The state of Virginia.
This is the sentence fragment that requires only a predicate in order to be written as a complete sentence.
Predicate is identified as a part of a sentence that talks about the subject of the sentence. In short, the predicate is anything but the subject.
Choice C. The state of Virginia is the subject of the sentence. So, anything added to describe the subject is a predicate.
For example: The state of Virginia is in the United States of America.
The predicate in the sentence is : is in the United States of America.
Answer: The underlined words ("for there were starts out") in this excerpt are an example of an adverbial clause.
Explanation: An adverbial clause is a dependent clause, that is to say it is a clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, and it functions as an adverb. Moreover, an adverb clause can be included at the beginning, at the middle or at the end of a sentence and it is always introduced by a subordinating conjunction. <u>"For there were starts out" is an adverbial clause because it cannot stand by itself in the sentence and it has been introduced by the subordinating conjunction "for"</u>. Moreover, it is an adverbial clause of reason since it is making reference to a cause.
