Which sentence includes a dependent clause?(1 point)
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She smiled as she opened the package.
She smiled as she opened the package.
It was a fancy hat!
It was a fancy hat!
Today is her 16th birthday.
Today is her 16th birthday.
The package was heavy.
The sentence "She smiled as she opened the package." includes a dependent clause.
Which option means “a group of words that has a subject and a predicate and is a complete sentence?”(1 point)
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noun phrase
noun phrase
independent clause
independent clause
dependent clause
dependent clause
prepositional phrase
The sentence "She smiled as she opened the package." includes a dependent clause.
The sentence "She smiled as she opened the package." includes a dependent clause.
To identify whether a sentence includes a dependent clause, you need to look for a group of words that do not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence. In this case, the dependent clause is "as she opened the package," which relies on the main clause "She smiled."