If anything is wrong with this, can someone help a fellow guy out

it needs a colon after contained and take the apostrophe off of zucchini

For number 1 there should be a comma after novel and after Twist inside the parentheses. (The novel, "Oliver Twist," was written by Charles Dickens.) For number 2 there should be no apostrophe for "zucchini's". It should be zucchinis or just zucchini (both are plural). For the last one there should be a comma after yard inside the parentheses. ("I don't have anything to put in the yard," Charlotte complied to John.

Explanation:

Answers:

1. Independent Clause - Mrs. Clarke is the elderly woman whose cake won first prize in the contest at the fair last year.

2. Relative pronoun - whose

3. Dependent Clause - ...whose cake won first prize in the contest last year.

Explanation:

1. This sentence can stand alone, so it is an independent clause.

2. The most common relative pronouns are who, whom, whose, which, that. The relative pronoun we use depends on what we are referring to and the type of relative clause. In this case, the relative pronoun is "whose".

3. This sentence fragment depends upon an independent clause.