Question

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

Answer 1

The correct answer is:

What would happen if love didn’t die?

An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence. When you read the sentence "what would happen if love didn’t die? you could use it as a sentence by itself, doesn't need any complement to make sense. On the other hand, the sentence "If the poem is about going mad when love is lost," is the dependent clause, because it needs a complementary sentence to complete the idea.

Answer 2

Answer:

C What would happen

Explanation:

An independent clause is a sentence which has meaning by itself. In the sentence above, which is in the interrogative form, we can see a subject and a predicate. What is the subject and would happen is the predicate, The answer to this question might be: "Something nice would happen". This idea would be independent because extra information is not necessarily needed to comprehend the meaning of the clause.