Which sentence uses the underlined word correctly?
as the sole decision maker, the ceo considered himself the democratic leader of his company.
since the leader consolidated all the power for his own use, the country is now essentially an autocracy.
the solitary queen ruled the democracy with an iron fist and allowed no interference with her decisions.
the autocratic government was particularly popular for its habit of implementing citizens’ suggestions.

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explanation:

- "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)."