The question below refers to the selections "interview with alice walker,” “interview with nikki giovanni,” “thinkin’ on marryin’,” and “a baby’s quilt to sew up the generations.” in “thinkin’ onmarryin’,” the speaker and her future husband meet when he
a. buys one of her quilts.
b. watches her quilting and introduces himself.
c. spills punch on one of her quilts.
d. her carry the quilts up a hill.

- "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)."