Mrs elvsted: , the most incredible rumours are afloat about him to-day. (hedda gabler; act 4, p. 131) in the above excerpt, what two things are being compared? a rumors and lovborgb rumors and heddac floating objects and lovborgd rumors and floating objects

The correct answer is A) in this excerpt they are talking about gossips around the word afloat doesn't mean that something is actually floating around it means that some's comments are emerging so this are the rumors and the object pronoun him makes reference to Lovborg when previously in the same conversation Tessman asked Hedda if it was a new event about Lovborg what was troubling her.

options B, C, and D are not possible because option B is partially correct only in the rumors part, option C is partially correct about Lovborg and option D takes the floating part in a literal form

- "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)."