Part A The word cracks has several possible meanings. Use context clues to determine the meaning of the underlined word cracks in the passage. Part B Which excerpt from paragraph 3 is the best clue to the answer for Part A?

Group of answer choices

breaks open

loses control

solves a mystery

sharp sounds

Enter a couple of curious keas.

they tear your tent to shreds

pick up stones to throw at the windows

chew apart the bungee cords

- "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)."