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This seems wrong. The conjugate closure should give the union of all conjugacy classes containing S, not the smallest normal subgroup containing S. For example, take S = { x } with x != 0, then the conjugate closure of S in (R,+) is just S. However S is not a subgroup of R. The statement would be true if S contained the identity however.