Questions 14-19 Last weekend, it (example) __was__ (be) our grandmother's 90th birthday. We (14) (decide) to have a large family dinner as a celebration. Everyone was there except my uncle because he works overseas. Besides cooking fantastic dishes for grandma, we also (15) (plan) a surprise for her.

While everyone (16) (get) ready to have cake, my mother and I (17) (pull) out a large gift box. It was as huge as a refrigerator! My grandma opened the box and she was really surprised because my uncle was inside the box! She was in tears because she (18) (not see) him for so long. Everybody also (19) (feel) as emotional as she did.

- "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)."

the correct answer is the name of the author of the quotation appears at the text leading up to it   apex 2018