Complete the activity at the bottom of p. 104 of The Language of Composition. (2nd edition: Complete the activity at the bottom of p. 109.)

she learned to understand that physical beauty wasn’t as important as being a good person.

- "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)."

(3x2 + 8) (x – 5)

step-by-step explanation:

verify this answer by multiplying out the parens:

which is the same as the original form of the polynomial