Identify the use of the introductory comma in the sentence. waiting for the wave, jim didn't notice he was drifting.

Well to understand this better, let us determine what is most closely referred here about the clause “waiting for the wave”.

From reading the sentence we can see that since Jim was waiting for the wave he didn’t notice something was happening to him. So there is a connection between the clause and the verb. So this an adverb clause.

adverb clause

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the correct answer is "(13) “they take a term that sounds really wonderful, but genetic engineering is genetic engineering is genetic engineering,” ms. tencer said. “it is not something farmers want. it is not something consumers want. i don’t think it is a very viable concept.” by explicitly stating that farmers or consumers do not want genetic engineering to produce their food the existence of opposition towards genetically modified organisms is presented. also, it is worth mentioning that ms. tender is the executive director of the organic farming research foundation in santa cruz, ca as stated in evidence 12, which supports her statement presented in evidence 13.