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.
- It contains a nonrestrictive clause.
- It links three clauses to add variety to a text.

Explanation: The sentence has two independent clauses joined by "and" plus a dependent relative clause ("who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction") set off with commas (nonrestrictive), so overall it is compound-complex and contains three clauses.