Question

read the sentence.
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.

Explanation:

1. A compound-complex sentence has at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause. The sentence has two independent clauses: "The English novelist Virginia Woolf...was a prolific writer" and "the influence of her fiction and nonfiction on her contemporaries was both powerful and pervasive", plus one dependent clause.
2. The clause "who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction" is nonrestrictive: it adds extra, non-essential information about Virginia Woolf, is set off by commas, and removing it does not break the core meaning of the sentence.
3. The sentence links three clauses total: two independent clauses and one dependent (relative) clause, which adds structural variety to a text.

Answer:

• It is a compound-complex sentence.
• It contains a nonrestrictive clause.
• It links three clauses to add variety to a text.