In the sentence you provided, "although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water" is a clause. Specifically, it is a dependent clause because it cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and relies on the main clause for its full meaning. A phrase, on the other hand, would not have both a subject and a verb, which is characteristic of a clause.
Is the group of words in bold a phrase or a clause?
Ironically, although approximately seventy-one percent of the earth is covered by water, thirty-three percent of its land area is desert.
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