The the family was the youngsters’ role model and mentor.
-sam had been standing outside with no shoes on for so long that the cold had rendered his feet nearly
-the professor's distinguished career at the university had earned him a reputation as a educator.
-the path that the wildfire burned through the forest was a _( on the landscape.

1-communion, mirth, patriarch, sepulcher
2-insensible, venerable, blighted, mirthful
3-insensible, blighted, mirthful, venerable
5-communion, mirth, patriarch, sepulcher

1. Patriarch - male head of family

2. Insensible - numb

3. Venerable - respectable

4. Sepulcher - burial place

answer; (b); the abolitionist movement;

- "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)."