Excerpt from a backward glance at eighty charles a. murdock my grandfather was the oldest of the brothers. when he married betsy buss his father set aside for him twenty acres of the home farm, and here he built the house in which he lived for forty years, raising a family of ten children. i remember quite clearly my great-grandfather silas hills. he was old and querulous, and could certainly scold; but now that i know that he was born in 1760, and had nineteen brothers and sisters, i think of him with compassion and wonder. it connects me with the distant past to think i remember a man who was sixteen years old when the declaration of independence was signed. he died at ninety-five, which induces apprehension. the passage is most likely from a/an a) biography. b) editorial. c) memoir. d) poem.

C) memoir.

Explanation:

Memoirs are literary works that describe or narrate on real personal experiences, characterized for presenting first-person pronouns in the singular like “I,” “me,” “my” and “mine.” The passage is an example of a memoir because here the author describes his grandfather and their experience with him.

correct answers:

c. they use panels.

d. they include images and words.

e. they contain gutters.

- "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)."