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{{quote“''Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas.''
{{quote|“''Last night, I shot an elephant in my pajamas.''


''How an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.''”
''How an elephant got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.''”
:—Groucho Marx}}  
:—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]].
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]].