Which is a dependent clause?

Question

during intermission, while we were discussing the performance
dodging frantically, a valet ran through the crowd and into the theater
dashing after him, two police officers plowed through the lobby crowd
discussing the commotion, we decided it was more exciting than the play

Answer 1

A dependent clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Among the options provided, the dependent clause is:

"while we were discussing the performance."

This clause cannot stand alone as a complete sentence, as it begins with the subordinating conjunction "while." The other phrases listed either function as participial phrases or independent clauses and can stand alone or are complete thoughts.