We can say that the sentence "I walked a mile before school" is an:
A. Independent clause.
What is an independent clause?
- An independent clause is a group of word containing a subject and a predicate that expresses a complete thought on its own. That means an independent clause can function as sentence, since its meaning is complete.
What about the sentence in question?
- The sentence "I walked a mile before school" is an independent clause. It expresses a complete thought, that is, it does not need another clause to help complete its meaning.
- To better understand it, let's compare it with the example: "Although I walked a mile before school." Notice that this clause is not complete. The use of "although" indicates we have more information coming.
- If somebody said the sentence in the example to you, you would most likely ask, "Although you walked a mile before school... what?" On the other hand, you would not do the same to the original sentence.
With the information above in mind, we can say the sentence in question is an independent clause.
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