Question

The English novelist Virginia Woolf, who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction, was a prolific writer, and the influence of her fiction and nonfiction on her contemporaries was both powerful and pervasive. Which statements best describe this sentence? Select three options. It is a complex sentence. It contains a restrictive clause. It is a compound-complex sentence. It contains a nonrestrictive clause. It links three clauses to add variety to a text.

Answer 1

• It is a complex sentence

A complex sentence is formed by a simple sentence and a dependent, or subordinate clause ( it has a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought).

• It contains a restrictive clause.

A restrictive clause modifies the noun that precedes it in an important way. Restrictive clauses limit  such nouns and cannot be removed from a sentence without changing the sentence’s meaning. The restrictive clause is "who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction". There is nothing gramatically wrong if we take it and just leave "The English novelist Virginia Woolf, was a prolific writer, and the influence of her fiction and non- fiction on her contemporaries was both powerful and pervasive". However,  it does not have the same objective as the former example, which was to identify Virginia Woolf as a writer who used the technique stream of consciousness.

• It links three clauses to add variety to a text.

Answer 2

Answer:

complex compound complex sentence

contains nonrestrictive clause

It links three clauses to add variety to a text.

Explanation:

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