Question

Which of the following sentences contains a dependent clause?
A. My mother, who never wastes anything, rinsed and saved the take out boxes.
B. We were running late and, we had to skip stopping by the post office.
C. I had never been to New York before this spring
D. You should take an umbrella to the game.

In the following sentence identify the independent clause
Since you moved to Spain I have been feeling lonely

Answer 1

A, my mother who never wastes anything rinsed and saved take out boxes is the answer

Answer 2

Answer: 1) A) My mother, who never wastes anything, rinsed and saved the take out boxes. 2) I have been feeling lonely.

Explanation: an independent clause is a phrase that have complete meaning on its own. A dependent clause is a phrase that despite having a subject and a predicate, doesn't have complete meaning on its own. From the given options, the sentence that contains a dependent clause, is the corresponding to option A, because the phrase "who never wastes anything" depends on the rest of the sentence to make sense.

In the second question, the independent clause is "I have been feeling lonely" and the dependent clause is "since you moved to Spain.