How to prove inner automorphisms are a subgroup to automorphisms

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My Question Reads:

Let G be a group and let AutG be the set of all automorphisms of G. Also, let InnG be the set of all inner automorphisms of G. Prove that InnG is a subgroup of AutG.

My thoughts:

I believe I would need to first state the definitions of an automorphism which is a function from a group to itself and an inner automorphism is where again a function from G to itself occurs but where f(a)=c^-1*a*c.

From here I am not too sure if I need to then prove closure and inverse to confirm subgroup but I am confused how to do this considering these are the type of functions I am dealing with.

For closure, would I need to pick two inner automorphisms or am I still picking two values of G?