Please help me please What is the dependent clause, main verb, and main subject of these sentences? 1. contrary to popular expectations, mandatory drug testing for florida welfare recipients showed that these individuals were less likely to use drugs that the general
populations.
2. it’s a little known fact that some turtles can breathe through their rear end.
3. mrs. kelley reflected that, besides flying, one thing she had neglected and would like now to have done was to learn to swim.

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Explanation:

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

i’m alive so yes and the author is a technique idiom