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Netesl Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Complete sentence?

Is this a complete sentence with the right grammar?

"The card for expressing your heartfelt feelings in a way that strikes the right balance between adorable, sincere and tasteful!"

I think the grammar is wrong in that this is not a sentence but a noun phrase, because there isn't a verb. What do you think?
  

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You are right to say that it is not a complete sentence but it does have a verb. 'strick' is the verb in the clause. To make it a complete sentence, you can change 'for expressing' to 'expresses'.

— Anon f8r

  • You are right to say that it is not a complete sentence but it does have a verb.
  • 'strick' is the verb in the clause.
  • To make it a complete sentence, you can change 'for expressing' to 'expresses'.
  • We normally use 'among' instead of 'between' when we talk about more than two things.
  • The card expresses your heartfelt feelings in a way that strikes the right balance among adorable, sincere and tasteful.
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You are right to say that it is not a complete sentence but it does have a verb. 'strick' is the verb in the clause.

To make it a complete sentence, you can change 'for expressing' to 'expresses'. We normally use 'among' instead of 'between' when we talk about more than two things.

The card expresses your heartfelt feelings in a way that strikes the right balance among adorable,
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Hongkie We normally use 'among' instead of 'between' when we talk about more than two things.

The card expresses your heartfelt feelings in a way that strikes the right balance among adorable, sincere and tasteful.
Hi Hongkie,

Generally, as you said, we use among to talk about three or more items. However, when we have many attri
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Oh! I did not know that.

Thank you, Hoa Thai.
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