Gary Soto is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. In this short story, a boy tries to impress a girl on the first day of seventh grade

Victor and Michael are scowling because they …

A think it gets girls’ attention.

B think it makes them look cool.

C know it makes people laugh.

D want to scare people away.

a because in the begging it say on the first day they were trying to impress a girl.

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)."

answer: from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people

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