Task: Underline the independent clauses in the following sentences.

1. The actor was happy he got a part in a movie

2. The museum was very interesting

3. people make allowance for his idiosyncrasies

4. The professional, who had been thoroughly trained

5. she believed in fairy tales

6. there was little left standing

7. I have to save this coupon

8. Let's go back to the restaurant

9. I chose not to go to the reunion

10. evolution progresses

11. I really didn't like the play

Explanation:

In the above, I have been able to underline the independent clauses.

A clause has a subject and a verb. An independent clause is known to be a clause which can give a complete thought without keeping the reader in doubt. It can stand alone as a sentence. It is different from dependent clause which cannot stand alone in a sentence and cannot give a complete thought.

The above clauses underlined all express a complete; therefore they independent clause.

what of the following? i don't know about you but i see no multiple choice answers.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.