As your question is somewhat ambiguous since the
"sentence" is really everything that has been written, let's first address the part that
you have written in capital letters: "It occurred to her that there are really no new
styles." This part of the entire sentence written above is both
an independent clause and a relative (dependent) clause.
Now, an independent
clause is one that can stand as a complete thought or sentence by itself;
that is, an independent clause contains a subject and a predicate that on their own make
logical sense. "It [subject] occurred [predicate] to her" makes sense on its own,
(although the reader does need a little more information since the he/she does not know
what "it" is). Therefore, this is an independent
clause.
A relative clause is one that begins with a
relative pronoun such as that, which, who, whom, or
whose. A relative clause is also called an adjective clause since
it modifies a noun or a pronoun. In this case "that there are no new styles" modifies
the subject pronoun It. This clause is a dependent
clause because it cannot stand on its own and have meaning. Also, the
first part of the sentence, "When Jane went shopping" is a dependent
clause, an adverbial clause that modifies the verb
occurred.
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