The answer is C. use the same grammatical construction in all similar headings throughout an outline.
<span>crops withered, curled up, then died under the thirsty sun
</span><span>snapping their roots and tearing them out of the earth a voice that seemed to rumble out of the earth itself
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An independent clause is a clause that can stand on its own, by itself. It does not need to be joined to any other clauses, because it contains all the information necessary to be a complete sentences. Independent clauses have three components: They have a subject - they tell the reader what the sentence is about.
I think the answer is B because it looks like it is past tense
