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? Choose three correct answers.

The sentence has three clauses: the independent clause “Virginia Woolf ... was a prolific writer,” the dependent clause “who pioneered the use of stream of consciousness in fiction,” and the independent clause “the influence ... was both powerful and pervasive.” With two independent clauses and one dependent clause, it is compound-complex, and the clauses combine to create sentence variety. The “who” clause is nonrestrictive because it adds information about Virginia Woolf and is set off by commas.

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