Refer to explorations in literature for a complete version of this narrative. in paragraph 4 of "a witch trial at mount holly," the author uses the words mob and populace to describe the crowd gathered to watch the witch trial. how do these words affect the meaning of the article? the words indicate that the people believe in witches. the words describe how the people are ignoring the facts. the words hint at how the people are understanding the situation. the words imply that the people are thinking and acting as a group.

Correct Answer - The words imply that the people are thinking and acting as a group.

Explanation:

- "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)."