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Title: Parenthetical Expressions & Nonrestrictive Clauses

Grade: 8-a Lesson: S5-L1

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Step	Type	Explanation	Answer
1	Problem	The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris, attracts millions of tourists each year.
2	Clue	Parenthetical Expressions and nonrestrictive Clauses are elements in a sentence that are unessential to the sentence’s core meaning.
3	Hint	The phrase "an iconic landmark in Paris" should be set off by commas.
4	Choice.A	The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris, attracts millions of tourists each year. The sentence is correct. In this sentence, "an iconic landmark in Paris" is a nonrestrictive clause providing additional information about "The Eiffel Tower." The clause is set off by commas, indicating that it’s not essential to the sentence’s meaning.	No change
5	Choice.B	The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris attracts millions of tourists each year. The sentence is incorrect because it lacks punctuation to set off the nonrestrictive clause "an iconic landmark in Paris." Without the comma, the phrase becomes restrictive, implying that there may be multiple iconic landmarks in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower is one of them.	Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris
6	Choice.C	The Eiffel Tower an iconic landmark attracts millions of tourists each year. The sentence is incorrect because it lacks punctuation and changes the word order, making the phrase "an iconic landmark" directly follow "Tower" without proper separation. Additionally, it does not specify the location, Paris, where the Eiffel Tower is situated. This alters the intended meaning of the sentence.	Tower an iconic landmark
7	Choice.D	The Eiffel Tower an iconic landmark in Paris attracts millions of tourists each year. The sentence is incorrect because it lacks punctuation to set off the nonrestrictive clause, "an iconic landmark in Paris." The absence of punctuation makes the phrase restrictive, altering the intended meaning of the sentence. It suggests that there may be multiple iconic landmarks in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower is just one of them, which is not the intended interpretation.	Tower an iconic landmark in Paris
8	Step:	Correct sentence	The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris, attracts millions of tourists each year.
9	Answer	Option	A
10	Sumup	Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

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Type

Explanation

Answer

Problem

The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris, attracts millions of tourists each year.

Clue

Parenthetical Expressions and nonrestrictive Clauses are elements in a sentence that are unessential to the sentence’s core meaning.

Hint

The phrase "an iconic landmark in Paris" should be set off by commas.

Choice.A

The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris, attracts millions of tourists each year.

The sentence is correct. In this sentence, "an iconic landmark in Paris" is a nonrestrictive clause providing additional information about "The Eiffel Tower." The clause is set off by commas, indicating that it’s not essential to the sentence’s meaning.

No change

Choice.B

The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris attracts millions of tourists each year.

The sentence is incorrect because it lacks punctuation to set off the nonrestrictive clause "an iconic landmark in Paris." Without the comma, the phrase becomes restrictive, implying that there may be multiple iconic landmarks in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower is one of them.

Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris

Choice.C

The Eiffel Tower an iconic landmark attracts millions of tourists each year.

The sentence is incorrect because it lacks punctuation and changes the word order, making the phrase "an iconic landmark" directly follow "Tower" without proper separation. Additionally, it does not specify the location, Paris, where the Eiffel Tower is situated. This alters the intended meaning of the sentence.

Tower an iconic landmark

Choice.D

The Eiffel Tower an iconic landmark in Paris attracts millions of tourists each year.

The sentence is incorrect because it lacks punctuation to set off the nonrestrictive clause, "an iconic landmark in Paris." The absence of punctuation makes the phrase restrictive, altering the intended meaning of the sentence. It suggests that there may be multiple iconic landmarks in Paris, and the Eiffel Tower is just one of them, which is not the intended interpretation.

Tower an iconic landmark in Paris

Step:

Correct sentence

The Eiffel Tower, an iconic landmark in Paris, attracts millions of tourists each year.

Answer

Option

Sumup

Can you summarize what you’ve understood in the above steps?

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