Read the sentence below and answer the question that follows. murderers are usually incarcerated for longer periods of time than robbers. to infer the meaning of incarcerated in this sentence, which of the following questions should you ask yourself? a. why is there so much crime? b. how long, on average, do murderers and robbers spend in jail? c. what usually happens to people found guilty of murder or robbery? d. what is the legal definition of murder?

true. the definition explains it: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. this is a dictionary definition that i have looked up in a dictionary.

- "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)."