The selection tool not working

The selection tool in Illustrator is not functioning as normal. It won't allow me to automatically click on a path or group of objects and show the rectangular marquee that automatically gives me a corner to grab and scale the selected items. How can I get this function to work again?

Sounds like you are missing the bounding box. Got to View>Show Bounding Box.

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