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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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I think the first president would've been George Washington.
Is this a complete sentence or it needs further context to be complete?
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It's a complete sentence. Broadly speaking, context is not required to make a sentence complete. It is required to make the meaning understandable.
- It's a complete sentence.
- Broadly speaking, context is not required to make a sentence complete.
- It is required to make the meaning understandable.
- eg He did it is a complete sentence, but we don't know who did what..
- would've been is not the natural choice of verb here.
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It's a complete sentence.
Broadly speaking, context is not required to make a sentence complete. It is required to make the meaning understandable. eg He did it is a complete sentence, but we don't know who did what..
would've been is not the natural choice of verb here.
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