Does a gerund phrase considered a sentence?

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Hello,Does the following phrase considered a sentence?doing homework and checking if the answers are correctThis phrase is an item in a list, and I want to know if it is considered a sentence - whether the first letter should be capitalized and if there should be a dot in the end of it.I suppose that it is not considered a sentence even though there is the verb be (are) in it since it doesn't include any continuation, but I want to be sure.Thanks in advance!

Teechr · Accepted Answer

No, it's not a sentence because it has no independent clause.

Fivejedjon · Answer

Jonathan1Does the following phrase considered a sentence?

Is the following phrase considered a sentence?

Jonathan1 · Answer

That is what I meant indeed, thanks for bringing the mistake to my attention.

Jonathan1 · Answer

Thank you for the answer.

KhoshtipMan · Answer

fivejedjonIs the following phrase considered a sentence?

I'd say either "Is the following phrase considered as a sentence?" or, "Can the following phrase be considered as a sentence?"

Fivejedjon · Answer

There is no need for the 'as'.

KhoshtipMan · Answer

I think/thought the construct "consider as" is much more common than it without "as". Don't you think so?

Fivejedjon · Answer

No. Nor do most people, according to https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=consider+it+a%2Cconsider+it+as+a+%2Cconsider+it+to+be+a%2Cconsidered+it+a%2Cconsidered+it+as+a%2C+considered+it+to+be+a&year_start=1950&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cconsider%20it%20a%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cconsider%20it%20as%20a%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cconsider%20it%20to%20be%20a%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cconsidered%20it%20a%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cconsidered%20it%20as%20a%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Cconsidered%20it%20to%20be%20a%3B%2Cc0.

CalifJim · Answer

KhoshtipManthe construct "consider as" is much more common

Goodness, no!

It's probably more like this for the three possibilities, with the first listed quite a bit more common than the others:

consider it done
consider it as done
consider it to be done

CJ

CalifJim · Answer

Jonathan1 ~~Does~~ Is a gerund phrase considered a sentence?

No. It's more like a special kind of noun phrase.

When you say doing homework and checking if the answers are correct, it's like saying cats and dogs, which I think you can see quite easily is not a sentence.

if the answers are correct is a subordinate clause; it doesn't count as a sentence.

CJ

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