I'm not sure I would have to say marshes and fields. ....
The sentence that is correctly construed with an independent clause and a dependent clause is A) As they examined the evidence afresh, they thought of a completely different explanation.
The other sentences don't have dependent clauses, only phrases.
The answers is problem and solution
He had many manners and he was always lending his money out to people for any apparent reason just to try to beat someone in a bet.