Question

read the sentence.
sayeed johnson, who is running for mayor, will be speaking at the city library tonight.
which terms describe the underlined portion of the sentence? select two options.
appositive
clause
nonrestrictive
phrase
restrictive

Explanation:

1. The underlined portion "who is running for mayor" contains a subject ("who") and a predicate ("is running for mayor"), so it is a clause.
2. It is set off by commas, provides extra non-essential information about Sayeed Johnson (the sentence makes sense without it), so it is nonrestrictive.
3. It is not an appositive (which renames a noun without a verb), not a phrase (lacks a subject-verb pair), and not restrictive (restrictive clauses are not set off by commas and are essential to identify the noun).

Answer:

• clause
• nonrestrictive