Which of the following demonstrates correct usage of hyphens? a. the mall featured a miniature-chihuahua store. b. the free standing stone carving was sculpted by my father. c. the white washed wood walls were blinding in the sunlight. d. the bad news bringer was shunned by all.

so are we writing a song for you or are we making characters for you.

- "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)."