Billy Jo thinks that the sky is blue because the sun paints it each morning.
<em>Billy Jo thinks that the sky is blue</em>. This is the independent clause. It has meaning by itself.
..<em>because the sun paints it each morning</em>. This is the dependent clause. It does not have meaning by itself. It needs the independent clause. It gives extra information -reason- related to the information in the independent clause.
Explanation:
intransitive verb................
A, the others are all focused on other peoples thoughts.
