Question

The novel was published when people were trying to recover from mass destruction (identify and analyse the clause)

Answer 1

Sentence: "The novel was published when people were trying to recover from mass destruction."

In the above sentence, the subordinate clause is "when people were trying to recover from mass destruction" while the main clause is the rest part of the sentence.

Since the above subordinate clause answers the question: "When was the novel published?"

Therefore, the subordinate clause in the above sentence is an adverb clause of time. It tells us when a particular event occurs.