When it started to snow, everyone headed for the ski hill.

Help. Need to know which part of this sentence is independant.

thanks

2 answers

I'm pretty sure the independant sentence is:

"everyone headed for the ski hill."
Larry is correct.

Dependent (subordinate) clause (cannot be a sentence on its own): When it started to snow

Independent (main) clause (can be a sentence on its own or combined with other clauses and/or phrases): everyone headed for the ski hill.

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/clauses.htm