Here's an attachment with the answer key to all of your questions.
An independent clause is a sentence or part of one that can stand alone.
So I have a feeling that the first one is correct as "My sister and I love to cook" and "we spend hours cooking together" can both stand alone yet are joined by a semicolon.
I hope this has helped
Choose the verbs in the sentence. There are only three of them in this
sentence. Only one of the verbs has a modifier that describes the verb.
That word is your adverb.
Answer:
A discriptive phase
Explanation:
when you list something like what you're allowed to take somewhere you add a colon before the list of something
A calorie is a unit that is used to measure energy.