Answer:
1.) "Gene calculates the area of the room." This is an independent clause
2.) "If he measures and calculates correctly." This is a dependent clause
3.) "Because the rain was so heavy." This is a dependent clause
4.) "Daisy drove the yellow car home." This is an independent clause
Explanation:
An independent clause is a group of words that can <em>stand on its own as a sentence</em>: it has a subject, a verb, and is a complete thought.
A dependent clause does not express a complete thought and <em>cannot stand on its own as a sentence.</em>
I believe it would be <span>C) She stood before the mirror courtesying and simpering to her own image, and greeting it as the friend whom she loved better than all the world beside. </span>
Because the battle didn’t actually “cry” as a person would. It’s just an expression that was used in the quote
