Let's Practice! (Answer on the separate sheets provided.) A. Directions: Read the following sentences. Identify the underlined words in cach item by writing INDEPENDENT if it is a main (independent) clause or DEPENDENT for subordinate (dependent) clause, 1. Our parents were worried aboul my brother; however he seemed carefree. 2. After being caught smoking, my brother was punished. 3. Although I pitied my brother, I couldn't do anything to help him 4. My brother preferred to be with his peers, though he was reprimanded several times.​