1) "Gene calculates the area of the room" is a

a) independent clause

b) dependent clause

2) "if he measures and calculates correctly"...is a

a) independent clause

b) dependent clause

3) "because the rain was so heavy" ...is a

a) independent clause

b) dependent clause

4) "Daisy drove the yellow car home" ...is a

a) independent clause

b) dependent clause

1.) "Gene calculates the area of the room." This is an independent clause

2.) "If he measures and calculates correctly." This is a dependent clause

3.) "Because the rain was so heavy."  This is a dependent clause

4.) "Daisy drove the yellow car home." This is an independent clause

Explanation:

An independent clause is a group of words that can stand on its own as a sentence: it has a subject, a verb, and is a complete thought.

A dependent clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand on its own as a sentence.

the answer is:

d. a story that frightened readers so much they would become suspicious of their surroundings

frankenstein is one of the terror novels wrote by the writers in a sort of bet, lord byron challenged them all to write a ghost story, and the story came to mary shelley in a dream, she wanted to conect with the fears of her society, fears of technology and changes, and she wanted readers to look around, freightened.

explanation:

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