What is the independent clause in the following sentence?

Question

Although it was raining, we played tennis anyway.

Although it

Although it was raining

we played tennis anyway

anyway

Answer 1

The independent clause in the sentence "Although it was raining, we played tennis anyway." is:

"we played tennis anyway."

An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a complete sentence, containing both a subject and a predicate. In this case, "we" is the subject and "played tennis anyway" is the predicate.