It is independent because it expresses a complete tought.
C. 56,000
Sited by NHTSA stats and driving schools across the United States of America.
<span>2. As he ran he could hear the "Plop! Plop!" of the oobleck on the windowpanes. It was pelting against the palace walls as big as greenish cup-cakes now! Plop is an example of onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is a word based on the sound associated with the word. Other examples include: buzz, meow, oink, splat. None of the other examples have these types of words.</span>
Answer:
There are no dependent clauses
And is the coordinating conjunction
"It was almost December" is an independent clause
"Jonas was beginning to be frightened is an independent clause
There aren't any prepositional phrases
Compound sentence
It adds to the overall effect on the readers because it shows that Jonas is uncertain and makes the readers realize the correction that Jonas makes to make the sentence more reasonable.
Explanation:
Answer: N. Scott Momaday - who is a native American himself - finds ironic that white people claimed that they were arriving into the "new world" when in reality there were ancient civilizations already living on those lands, and this claim is one that they have continued to sustain up to this day.
When Europeans arrived in 1492, there were very large Indian populations scattered all across America with a rich history and culture, an element that vastly defers the logic of the discovery of a "new world".