Carl occasionally pauses as he reads an essay to jot down notes about things he doesn't understand and information he wants to research further. which active reading strategy is he using?

Carl is using the 'Asking Questions' strategy. He's writing down things he doesn't understand so he can look them up or ask about them later.

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- "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)."