The sentence that contains an independent clause is option B) “Norman now has a job at the high school”.
Independent clauses have meaning by themselves and don’t need other words. They have a subject and predicate as a simple sentence.
Option A) is not correct since the clause is incomplete; the part “at the high school” is an adverbial phrase of place that adds meaning to the independent clause.
Option C) is incorrect as the clause “though he is hoping to find work with the country” does not have meaning by itself and needs additional information.
Option D) is also incorrect since the phrase “to find work with the country” is a prepositional clause that modifies the verb “hope”.
