The following passage appears on a website: gorillas may look threatening, but they are peaceful and family-oriented animals. they are the largest of all primates, but as plant-eating animals, do not bother other creatures. which choice best paraphrases the information? a.) as the largest primates, gorillas look imposing. in reality, they eat plants, protect their families, and keep to themselves. b.) gorillas are the largest of all primates. they may look threatening, but they are plant-eating animals. they are peaceful and family oriented and do not bother other creatures. c.) gorillas look threatening but are peaceful and family oriented. they are the largest primate. they are plant eaters and don't bother other creatures. d.)gorillas may appear scary, but they are nonviolent and family-centered creatures. they are the biggest of all primates, but as vegetarian creatures, they do not inconvenience other species.

- "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 autor of the text is bringing the point that one achievment of the president john f. kennedy was a success and this caused the next president to use a similar idea. the purposefor the use of the quotation in the text is to support the idea that peace corps was a result of the president's call. in this case, the quotation is presented as part of the writing and does not stand on its own.

answer a.