Let be prime and choose . Its order divides by part (iii), and cannot be one. Hence its order is , so its generated subgroup has the same number of elements as the whole group:This proves that a group of prime order is cyclic. In fact every nonidentity element is a generator. No commutativity assumption was needed; it follows from cyclicity.
Let be a proper subgroup. By Lagrange's theorem, divides . Since , its possibilities areThe subgroup of order one is generated by the identity and is cyclic. For either prime order or , choose other than the identity. Its order of a group element divides and is not one, so it is . Thus its powers exhaust , proving .
ThereforeThis uses the fact that a group of prime order is cyclic. It does not require the order-21 group itself to be Abelian or cyclic.