A parenthetical element is a (5 points) part of a sentence that can be removed without changing the meaning of the sentence
group of words that connects other words, phrases, dependent clauses, and sentences
phrase or clause containing three or more words at the beginning or end of a sentence
portion of a sentence that is put into parentheses to show its importance in the sentence

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)