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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Could you please answer this question?

Do sentences in English always have verb? Are there any exceptions to this rule?
  

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Anonymous Do sentences in English always have a verb? Are there any exceptions to this rule? At the moment, I can't think of an example of a sentence which has no verb.

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  • Anonymous Do sentences in English always have a verb?
  • Are there any exceptions to this rule?
  • At the moment, I can't think of an example of a sentence which has no verb.
  • Signs, and answers to questions often omit the verb, but these are not really sentences.
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Anonymous Do sentences in English always have a verb? Are there any exceptions to this rule?
At the moment, I can't think of an example of a sentence which has no verb.

Signs, and answers to questions often omit the verb, but these are not really sentences.
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Do sentences in English always have a verb? Yes. Are there any exceptions to this rule? No.

The names for a syntactically meaningful groups of one or more words are:

Interjection (Hi, Hey, Good gracious!)
Phrase (noun phrase, verb phrase, adverb phrase, prepositional phrase, etc.)
Fragment (an incomplete sentence, which may have a verb.)
(Reduced
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In dialogue we often have verb-less pronouncements which may be viewed by some as sentences.
The context makes the intended missing words clear.
The question remains, for purposes of answering the OP, are these really sentences?
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It's amazing if you really listen to conversations, how many exchanges are just fragments, not sentences.
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