No, the phrases "Unless you hear from me," "Tanya likes to read," "When the children grow up," and "Amanda and Scott" are not independent clauses. To be an independent clause, each phrase would need to express a complete thought and be able to stand alone as a sentence.
No, "Unless they answer by tomorrow" is a dependent clause and needs to be paired with an independent clause to form a complete sentence.
Because "why" is a subordinate clause and therefore cannot be answered unless it is appended with a fitting independent clause followed by a question mark.
An independent clause stands alone.
An alternative term for a main clause is an independent clause.
The whole sentence is an independent clause. Unless...... if you were trying to say: You burned your dinner and you went out to eat.This would me 2 independent clause. These would be (you burned your dinner) and (you went out to eat)
Only an independent clause can stand independently. A dependent clause is dependent on an independent clause.
An independent clause is a sentence that can stand on its own.
A complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause. The independent clause can stand alone as a complete sentence, while the dependent clause relies on the independent clause to make sense.
A clause can not stand alone in a sentence, whereas an independent clause can stand alone in a sentence.
This question is somewhat ambiguously phrased, because independent and dependent clauses are mutually exclusive categories, and a clause that is introduced by a subordinate conjunction is not independent by definition. However, substituting a coordinating conjunction in a independent clause by a subordinate conjunction can convert an initially independent clause into a dependent clause.
It can be an independent clause or a dependent clause. It is an independent clause if does not have a word at the beginning like "but" or "because". If there is a word like this at the beginning of the clause, it is a dependent clause.
I think you can't have a subordinate independent clause. A subordinate clause is a clause which is dependant on another clause it can't stand alone as a sentence. An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence.