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a. <span>Because they owned a car, they were able to escape to the towns.</span>
Answer:
It is independent because the sentence can stand alone.
Explanation:
If you had the sentence "The test was easy because I studied," "because I studied" would be dependent because it can't stand alone as a complete sentence.