Haralson, Angel Which sentence below contains an example of hyperbole?
O The racing water swished over the mossy stones on its way to the river.
The truck's old motor sounded harsh and gruff as it struggled up the hill.
The moody, mystic moon shone high in the sky on the clear winter night.
O The front porch was the best place in the universe to read a book in summer.

- "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)."

a. is the correct answer

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