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Identify the underlined part of the following sentence:

Esperanza's mother says that she will never marry Luis.​

Identify the underlined part of the following sentence: Esperanza's mother says that-example-1
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Dependent clause

Step-by-step explanation:

It cannot be either a prepositional phrase or dependent phrase because phrases do not contain a subject and a verb ( which the underlined part contains)

It is not an independent clause because it does not make a complete meaningful sentence on its own.

It is therefore a dependent clause. A dependent clause has a subject and verb, is introduced by a subordinate conjunction/relative pronoun but does not express a complete thought.

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