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November 12, 2007
Someone on Ebaby wrote to me about one word sentences. I can't find the message or the comment anywhere so I thought that I would write a little blog entry about one word sentences.
The person who wrote the note to me said that he understood that each sentence in English had to have a subject and a predicate. Well, for every rule in English there is an example of something that breaks the rule. What? No? Really? Huh?
One word sentences exist in oral English and in fiction. I can't think of a scholarly work that would include a one word sentence but there may be some. Fiction, of course, has no rules at all. That's the beauty of it. It can be anything you want it to be. Fiction can ebb and flow, bend corners, stream from our consciousness and be whatever you want it to be. Conversation is the same thing. You can say whatever you want to say, in any form just as long as you get your point across.
Just as there can be sentences that begin with 'so', there can be one word sentences.
Next time, I'll try to do a stream of consciousness entry just to show what you can do it you let your mind float and forget about punctuation.
I hope the person who asked me about this reads this!
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