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A clause is a group of words that contain both a subject and a verb. They are not a sentence, yet they can become one if you capitalize the first letter, and add punctuation. They can be incomplete thoughts or complete.

Incomplete: As soon as I walked out.

Complete: She is miserable.

Dependent clauses are incomplete thoughts. Dependent clauses need a subordinating conjunction.

Independent clauses are complete thoughts. They can be a sentence, or can be in a sentence with a dependent clause.

The definition of clause is a group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
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