EXERCISE 31.14: THINKING CRITICALLY
The following sentences come from the openings of well-known works. Identify the independent and dependent clauses in each sentence. Then choose one sentence, and write a sentence of your own imitating its structure, clause for clause and phrase for phrase. Example:
Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.
—MARGARET ATWOOD, The Blind Assassin
A few minutes before the detectives arrived, our friend Nastassia found a passageway behind the wall.
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