Question

8.   In the second sentence, the phrase "inside his trouser pockets" is a/an 

Answer 1

A is the correct answer

Answer 2

Its A)
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