Punctuating Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Elements — Unit test

Question 1

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun80Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

There has never been a girl more beautiful than Rosaline.

Question 2

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene v of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet: Madam, I am not well. Lady Capulet: Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death?75What! wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? And if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live; Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

She suggests that Juliet’s crying is excessive.

Question 3

Read the sentence.Alma plans to visit London and Paris, where her parents went on their first trip together as a married couple.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

It is a nonrestrictive relative clause because it begins with a relative pronoun, has both a subject and a verb, and is not necessary to the meaning of the sentence.

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