Guided Practice. Underline the independent clause once and the dependent clause twice. 1. After Scott and Kelly attended the concert, they went to Giovanni’s for a nice dinner.

2. Mamie’s mom said she could spend the night with her best friend if she did all of her homework first.

3. Whenever there is a concert in the Woodlands, surrounding neighborhoods can hear the music.

4. Jake stared at me as if he had seen a ghost.

5. When it’s foggy, driving is very dangerous.

6. Chris felt responsible for the missing book though it was not his fault.

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. there was a moment, in time, and in this place, when my brother, or my mother, or my father, or my sister, had to convey to me, for example, the danger in which i was standing from the white man standing just behind me, and to convey this with a speed, and in a language, that the white man could not possibly understand, and that, indeed, he cannot understand, until today. he cannot afford to understand it. this understanding would reveal to him too much about himself, and smash that mirror before which he has been frozen for so long. this excerpt from "if black english isn't a language, then tell me, what is? " is significant because -select all that apply- hughes imagines himself as a black slave. hughes uses black english to emphasize his argument. hughes uses a historical example to explain the origins of language. hughes explains the significance that black english holds for white people.