Question

Read the sentence.

The English novelist Virginia Woolf, who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction, was a prolific writer, and the influence of her fiction and nonfiction on her contemporaries was both powerful and pervasive.

Which statements best describe this sentence? Select three options.

It is a complex sentence.
It contains a restrictive clause.
It is a compound-complex sentence.
It contains a nonrestrictive clause.
It links three clauses to add variety to a text.

Answer 1

Correct choices:

- It is a compound-complex sentence. — The sentence has two independent clauses joined by "and" plus a dependent (relative) clause, so it is compound-complex.
- It contains a nonrestrictive clause. — "who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction" is a nonrestrictive (extra information) relative clause set off by commas.
- It links three clauses to add variety to a text. — The sentence contains and connects three clauses (two independents and one dependent), which creates variety in sentence structure.