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shasha12:

Please Help! What is the function of the underlined portion of the sentence? Australia is an interesting continent because it hosts so many diverse animal species, Question 2 options: Adjective Phrase Adverb Phrase Adjective Clause Adverb Clause

shasha12:

the underlined part starts with because

mhchen:

Clauses are separated by punctuation so I don't think it's a clause. The phrase describes the statement 'Australia is an interesting continent' which is a noun. Adjectives describes nouns while adverbs describes other verbs/adverbs/adjectives.

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