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Read the sentence.

When they arrived at the beach, the students who had never seen the ocean before ran toward the shore.

Which part of the sentence is an adverbial dependent clause?

when they arrived at the beach
the students who had never seen
ran toward the shore

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"When they arrived at the beach."

Explanation: It begins with the subordinating conjunction "when," tells when the action happened (modifies "ran"), and cannot stand alone, so it's an adverbial dependent (subordinate) clause.