Read the sentence:
If the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn’t die?

Identify the independent clause.

A.) If the poem is about going mad when love is lost

B.) if love didn’t die

C.) what would happen

D.) when love is lost

Question

Read the sentence:
If the poem is about going mad when love is lost, what would happen if love didn’t die?

Identify the independent clause.

		
A.) If the poem is about going mad when love is lost
		
B.) if love didn’t die
		
C.) what would happen
		
D.) when love is lost

anonymous · Answer

An independent clause is a clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence... so only one of these is not a fragment. If anything begins with "if" and isn't concluded properly, like A and B, then they are fragments, most likely. The same goes for a sentence beginning with "when". So I would pick C, though I'm not 100%.

anonymous · Answer

Because "What could happen?" can be a sentence with a question mark added.

anonymous · Answer

Excuse me, "*would happen"