3. PART A: How do the children respond to the man's initial cry for help? A. Some of the children want to play tricks on the man, and the others go along
with it.
B. They make their decision without talking, but why they choose not to help the
man is left unclear.
C. They are unable to come to an agreement about how to help, so they decide not to
help, at all.
D. They want to help him, but so much time passes that they fear he will punish
them if he ever gets out.

D. They want to help him,but so much time passes that they fear he will punish them if he ever gets out

- "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)."