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Default Re: They made us translate an English paragraph. 2 clauses here?

As a matter of fact, the clause is "translate an English sentence", not "us translate an English sentence" (the page Mariner linked to contains a small error).

It is an example of a non-finite clause, and in a non-finite clause, the subject is only implied. Here, the implied subject is "we". (Non-finite clauses cannot have explicit subjects because the verb is non-finite, and non-finite verbs do not have subjects.)
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