Discussion
Identify the clause in the underlined part of the following sentence.
A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Answer: A
The underlined part is a principal clause.
A clause is a group of words with a subject and a finite verb. 'She broke the world record in it' has the subject she and the verb broke, and it makes complete sense on its own, so it is a principal (main, independent) clause. 'A year later' has no verb; it is an adverbial phrase of time, not a clause.
Adverb, adjective and noun clauses are subordinate clauses. They are introduced by a subordinating word such as when, which or that and cannot stand alone, and the underlined part has no such word.
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