What best describes a clause?

a group of words does not have a subject, which performs an action

a group of words that can only serve to modify or describe another part of a sentence

an expression that includes a subject and a predicate, so it performs some sort of action within a sentence

a group of words, which is used to join two simple sentences.

Read this passage from william faulkner's the sound and the fury: i says no i never had university advantages because at harvard they teach you how to go for a swim at night without knowing how to swim and at sewanee they dont even teach you what water is. i says you might send me to the state university; maybe i'll learn how to stop my clock with a nose spray and then you can send ben to the navy i says or to the cavalry anyway, they use geldings in the cavalry. which best describes the narrator's tone in this passage? a. bitter b. angry c. sarcastic d. all of the above

What is the value of x in the equation? 43 7 x − 31 2 = 12 a) 32 5 b) 31 2 c) 33 4 d) 36 7

What is the climax of chapter 2 of the the sound and the fury? a. the compsons sell their plot of land to send quentin to harvard. b. quentin drops out of school. c. quentin commits suicide. d. caddy gets pregnant.