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[Carl Childress]

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.

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?