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Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas.

How an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.

—Groucho Marx

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.