D) more graceful than the others
A nation can influence it's citizens through it's noble works like through it's good development steps and measures for weaker sections of the society.
Its A)
<span>It cannot be a independent clause because that phrase itself cannot be its own sentence. For example in the sentence "I need some water to drink.", "I need some water" is an independent clause, because it can be a sentence that makes sense not like "to drink", because that makes no sense. So as I said before I got to talking about clauses</span>