Restrictive and Non-Restrictive

Nonrestrictive clauses needs commas.

• True

• False

Identify the type of clause:

The soft cartilage that makes up sharks' skeletons dissolves over time.

• Nonrestrictive

• Restrictive

The children who live up the street are quite friendly.

• commas after children and street

• comma after street

• no commas

• comma after children

The woman who found my missing purse is now my close friend.

• no commas

• comma after woman

• comma after purse

• commas after woman and purse

Read the following: The players who are wearing the red uniforms are winning the game. Which answer choice correctly identifies the correct clause with the proper explanation?

• nonrestrictive clause: If we take out the clause, the original intent of the sentence doesn't change. The information is non essential.

• restrictive clause: If we take out the clause, we won't know which players are winning the game. The information is essential.

Which answer choice demonstrates the best way to combine the following sentences? The oranges have been sitting on the table for a week. They are starting to look brown.

• The oranges, which have been sitting on the table for a week, are starting to look brown.

• The oranges which have been sitting on the table for a week are starting to look brown.

• For a week the oranges have been on the table sitting, which are starting to look brown.

Which sentence is correctly punctuated?

• Would you lend me the book, that you recommended last week?

• Would you lend me the book that you recommended last week?

Which sentence is correctly punctuated?

• Oliver Twist, which was Dickens’s second novel, is a classic.

• Oliver Twist which was Dickens’s second novel is a classic.

Which of the following is correctly punctuated?

• The lamp which was given to me by Aunt Betsy is on the bedside table.

• The lamp, which was given to me, by Aunt Betsy, is on the bedside table

• The lamp, which was given to me by Aunt Betsy, is on the bedside table.

Should there be a comma after "apple"?

At lunch, Princess Peach had an apple that was as big as a

grapefruit.

• yes

• no