The correct answer is option C: It contains one independent clause and one dependent clause.
- The independent clause is: <em>"The hikers decided to make camp before reaching the summit".</em>
- The dependent clause is: "<em>Because night was approaching rapidly"</em>. It is introduced by the subordinating conjunction <em>because</em>.
- <em>"After a strenous climb"</em> is a phrase.
The third passage? It literally says they had forgotten him.
"All this time no one had remembered Ravi. (Having disappeared from the scene, he had disappeared from their minds. Clean)"
Answer: It is not. The correct way of saying that is ''We have known each other for just a while.''
