Are the underlined words in the sentence an independent clause, a subordinate clause, or neither?

"since early this morning" my friends and i been riding our bikes every evening.
p. s. the quotation is the underlined words.

Which excerpt from initiation is the best example of an internal conflict

Read the excerpt from the odyssey then his chores being all dispatched she caught another brace of man to make his breakfast and whisk away his great door slab to let his sheep go through but he behind reset the stones as one would cap a quiver what two things are being compared in this epic simile

What is the most likely the cumulative impact of the use of the word depict or depictions