This small town in hancock county is associated with the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. originally named commerce, the name was changed when joseph smith brought his followers there in 1839. by 1844, it had a population of 12,000 people, making it one of the largest cities in illinois. a reconstruction of the original mormon temple was opened in 2002, and now attracts many thousands of visitors annually. what town is this?

- "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)."

i think the correct answer is b. phrase