The details from this excerpt support the inference that even the rich suffered during times of famine. the laws prevented the rich from hoarding food. the rich often still prospered while the poor starved. many of the rich prevented the poor from starving to death.

the rich often still prospered while the poor starved.

The excerpt explains how, in times of famine, there were laws that established that people could not hoard food. However, these laws were not respected. Rich people still hoarded corn, and some businessmen even bought large amounts in order to drive the price up and profit from it, even as many poor people were dying. Therefore, the text establishes that during the famine, rich people still prospered, while the poor starved.

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- "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)."