Which statement is most opposed to the viewpoint expressed on this web page? a) failing to immunize is more risky than the vaccines are. b) parents should have the last word on whether to vaccinate. c) there is no hard scientific evidence that vaccines cause autism. d) it is more important to protect all of society than to protect one child.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

a simple sentence must have at least one dependent clause.