<span>First, the eyes: They are large and blue, a light opaque blue, the color of a robin's egg. And if, on a sunny spring day, you look straight into these eyes—eyes that cannot look back at you—the sharp, April light turns them pale, like the thin blue of a high, cloudless sky.</span>
That sentence is complete because it has both a subject and a predicate. It is also and independent clause.
According to Roman tradition, the Republic began in 509 BCE when a group of noblemen
overthrew the last king of Rome. The Romans replaced the king with two consuls--rulers
who had many of the same powers as the king but were elected to serve one-year terms
