Read the following passage: "how can i get at it? " thought kovaloff. "everything the uniform, the hat, and so on show that it is a state-councillor. how the deuce has that happened? " he began to cough discreetly near it, but the nose paid him not the least attention. "honourable sir," said kovaloff at last, plucking up courage, "honourable sir." "what do you want? " asked the nose, and turned round. "it seems to me strange, most respected sir you should know where you belong and i find you all of a sudden where? judge yourself." "pardon me, i do not understand what you are talking about. explain yourself more distinctly." nikolai gogol, "the nose" what evidence from the text supports the idea that kovaloff is intimidated by his nose? a. "you should know where you belong" b. "what do you want? " c. "pardon me, i do not understand what you are talking about."

- "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)."

it is the background information on the characters and setting explained at the beginning of the story. the exposition will often have information about events that happened before the story began. the exposition is often the very first part of the plot.