What purpose does the semicolon serve in the following sentence? leticia has to leave early this afternoon; she has a doctor's appointment. 1. the semicolon separates the words in a series. 2. the semicolon joins two related independent clauses. 3. the semicolon introduces a quotation. 4. the semicolon summarizes the information that come before it.

- "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)."