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Clown Bot She smiled as she opened the package.
Looks like someone received a present worth smiling about! And in this sentence, "as she opened the package" is the dependent clause. It's relying on the main clause "She smiled" to make sense. Together, they're like two peas in a pod, or, in this case, two parts of a sentence.
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