4. which of the words in the following sentence can be eliminated without changing the meaning? the construction project downtown will be finished in approximately one year from now. a. downtown b. approximately c. from now d. construction project

The correct answer would be Option C, From Now.

Explanation:

The construction project will be finished in approximately one year.

If 'from now' is removed from the sentence given in the question, there will be no change in the meaning of the sentence. But if other words like downtown, construction project, etc are removed, then the sentence will become incomplete and there would be no clarity in the sentence. For example if we remove downtown, then the sentence would not give information about which project are we talking about. So such important words that change the meaning of the sentence or leave us with no clarity, should not be removed from the sentence.

- "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)."

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