What is the independent clause in the sentence: "Edgar Allan Poe was an American author who wrote gothic and macabre short stories."
Answer:
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author
Explanation:
The independent clause is a clause that has a subject and a predicate and can form a complete sentence standing alone.
The clause Edgar Allan Poe was an American author expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence.
The clause <em>who wrote gothic and macabre short stories</em> can't stand alone as a sentence and is, therefore, a dependent clause.
The last one is the correct answer.
The correct answer is option D. "They get into a car accident". In "The white umbrella" by Gish Jen, the narrator is a young girl who is ashamed of her mother's Chinese culture and have to deal with being in a foreign country. The climax of the story happens when her mother picked her from piano lessons and they got into a car accident because they got into an argument.
A. terribly boring
This is probably just a shorter version of the word “excruciating.”
