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elijahd:

Read the sentence. The canyon, formed by years of erosion, was a breathtaking sight to behold. What best describes the underlined part of this sentence? restrictive phrase nonrestrictive phrase restrictive clause nonrestrictive clause

Mercury:

I'm guessing "formed by years of erosion" is the underlined part? in that case, notice how it doesn't have a subject + predicate, making it a phrase rather than a clause now, to decide between restrictive, consider whether it can be removed w/o fundamentally changing the meaning of the sentence or not

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