Which sentence is incorrect in its application of italics? a) my favorite painting is munch's the scream. b) did you see the classic road movie easy rider? c) my favorite robert frost poem is the road not taken. d) william faulkner's book the sound and the fury is written in stream of consciousness.

- "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)."