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Which choice is a subordinate clause?
After the marketing
department finished
planning the campaign.
The report was due after
the first of the year.
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Jonathan went to the store
after work.
After lunch, the sales
department gave a
presentation.

After the marketing  department finished  planning the campaign.

Explanation:

A subordinate or dependent clause is a sentence that cannot stand alone because they do not make a complete meaning. Such a clause has to rely on another main clause in order to make complete sense. The first option is a subordinate clause because it simply provides more information about an event. Even though it contains a subject and a verb, does not give the total information that is needed to understand what is being talked about.