Read the sentence.The English novelist Virginia Woolf, who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction, was a prolific writer, and the influence of her fiction and nonfiction on her contemporaries was both powerful and pervasive.Which statements best describe this sentence? Select three options.It is a complex sentence.It contains a restrictive clause.It is a compound-complex sentence.It contains a nonrestrictive clause.It links three clauses to add variety to a text.

The sentence has two independent clauses: “Virginia Woolf … was a prolific writer” and “the influence … was both powerful and pervasive,” joined by “and.” It also contains the dependent clause “who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction.” The commas show that this clause adds extra information about Woolf rather than identifying which novelist is meant, so it is nonrestrictive. Together, the two independent clauses and one dependent clause make the sentence compound-complex and link three clauses.

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