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-“Last night I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.”
+{{quote|“''Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas.''
+''How an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.''”
 :—Groucho Marx}}
-In the phrase, “how an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know”,  “I’ll never know” is the [[main clause]], and “how an elephant got into my pajamas” is the [[dependent clause]].
+In the sentence, “How an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know”,  “I’ll never know” is the [[main clause]], and “how an elephant got into my pajamas” is the [[dependent clause]].