Tue Nov 22, 2005, 10:46pm
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Originally posted by WhatWuzThatBlue
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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Originally posted by WhatWuzThatBlue
Is "careful" a sentence in any language?
I felt you would appreciate the fact that you made a grammatical blunder, after all you have embraced the need to point out others' foibles.
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Talk about ignorance. (Now that's a fragment.)
But "Careful" is an excellent imperative sentence. In such locutions, the subject is understood to be the person addressed:
"Careful!
"Watch out!"
"Sing!"
"Talk!"
There are other, one-word sentences that have an implied subject and verb:
"No!"
"Yes!"
"Maybe!"
Garth is not a friend of mine, as everyone knows. And he makes a few mistakes in his posts because of his eagerness and passion. But "Careful" is no mistake.
He's also teaching an honors Humanities class. Yesterday, they began work on 15th-century Italian art, architecture, music, painting, and sculpture.
What did you do yesterday?
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Your examples were exclamations. His use of it was not. Imploring is not proclaiming vehemence, but I know that you knew that. I guess it was just another case of writing one thing but meaning another. Lah me!
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As I tried to explain before, imperatives need not be punctuated with exclamation points. I find it curious you still want to argue this. From your history, I would have deemed it beneath you.
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