PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text? Group of answer choices

The North was more powerful than the South and was always going to be the victor of the Civil War.

Despite the obvious strength of the North, the outcome of the war was unpredictable at the time.

The United States underestimated the strength of the South, giving it the upper hand.

The sole cause of the Civil War was the South’s desire to preserve slavery in the United States.

- "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)."

what makes a hero is someone who tries and acres and then to save people and it’s not their jobs to save them just a normal person that has no experts of saving people would jump in to action without it twice about doing it. me that’s the defection of a hero!

answer: the sentence in the text that contains both the topic and the author's single most important idea about the topic

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