Grammar Exercise #2: Recognizing Independent Clauses and Dependent Clauses

1. Many campuses institute "common book" reading programs for incoming freshman Ind.
2. Washington State University's 2009 choice was The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan Ind.
3. After he heard that the program requiring all freshmen to read the same book was cancelled Dep.
4. Attorney Bill Marler, an alumnus of WSU, decided to get involved Ind.
5. While school administrators claimed that budget cuts forced them to cancel the 2009 program Dep.
6. Some faculty and students suspected there was another reason that the administrators weren't owning up to Ind.
7. Because 4,000 copies of the book had already been bought and paid for Dep.
8. The book examines the economic, ecological, and health problems that American society faces due to some agribusiness practices Ind.
9. Skeptics charged that the administrators' action came after pressure from the state’s powerful agribusiness interests Ind.
10. When Marler heard of the controversy Ind.
11. He decided to find out Ind.
12. If money really was the issue Dep.
13. He offered to pay the program’s projected $40,000 shortfall Ind.
14. Since he came up with the money Dep.
15. The common reading is back on Ind.
16. An important part of the program is bringing the author to campus Ind.
17. Marler said he would be surprised Ind.
18. If bringing Pollan to the school would really cost so much Ind.
19. Since Pollan has offered reduced fees to schools and even offered to do video interviews Dep.
20. Pollan is glad that the program is back on at the land-grant university Ind.
21. “Because we are in the midst of this national conversation about the future of food and agriculture, and land grant universities have a critical role to play” Dep.