What are the clauses, main verb, subject & object of the following sentence?

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"The spectacular collapse of Vladimir Putin's army in Kharkiv's province has revived concerns that Russia might resort to nuclear weapons."

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A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb that have a relationship. This relationship is crucial; a clause conveys information about what that subject is or is doing, rather than simply being a random grouping of words.

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The main verb is also called the lexical verb or the principal verb. This term refers to the important verb in t

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The main verb is also called the lexical verb or the principal verb. This term refers to the important verb in the sentence, the one that typically shows the action or state of being of the subject. Main verbs can stand alone, or they can be used with a helping verb, also called an auxiliary verb.

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If we want to define 'subject' in the simplest way possible, we could say that:

The subject is the person or thing doing something.
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The subject is the doer of the action.

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In English grammar, an object is a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun that is affected by the action of a verb. Objects give our language detail and texture by allowing the creation of complex sentences. Prepositions also have objects.

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"The spectacular collapse of Vladimir Putin's army in Kharkiv's province has revived concerns that Russia might resort to nuclear weapons."

The spectacular collapse of Vladimir Putin's army in Kharkiv's province has revived concerns that Russia might resort to nuclear weapons.

The main clause is the whole sentence, whose subject is the noun phrase The spectacular collapse of Vladimir Putin's army in Kharkiv's province and whose verb is has.

The object is the noun phrase concerns that Russia might resort to nuclear weapons, which is located within the subordinate clause revived concerns that Russia might resort to nuclear weapons, functioning as complement of "revived".

What are the clauses, main verb, subject & object of the following sentence?

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