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Catlin Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

How To

I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me whether the 'sentences' such as the following are complete sentences:

How to download the software?

How to operate the tool?

If not, how can we make them complete sentences? Further, can I use a structure like these as the title of a slide in my presentation?

Thanks in advance.
  

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They are infinitive phrases, but not clauses(sentences) :up:

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They are infinitive phrases, but not clauses(sentences) :up:
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If you say I don't know to to download the software it is ok or else

How to download the software?

In this form it isn't a sentence.
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CatlinI'd appreciate it if someone could tell me whether the 'sentences' such as the following are complete sentences:

How to download the software?

How to operate the tool?

If not, how can we make them complete sentences? Further, can I use a structure like these as the title of a slide in my presentation?

Thanks in advance.

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As presentation slide (or other document) titles they are ok, but not in question format as you can't shorten questions in this way. I assume that you are giving instruction on how to do these things rather than asking how you can do them.

How to download the software.

How to operate the tool.
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can i suggest the learned teachers to first define SENTENCE, and then in the light of that definition comment on this particular sentence.
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Bird of Paradise, I'm sorry, but I don't understand your suggestion.

Do you mean we should say "This is how you operate this tool." or "I know how to operate this tool"? I think this was done by prior posters.

Can you say that again another way, if I'm missing your meaning? Thanks.
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What I want to say is that in the original post Catlin wanted to know
how to make those two sentences COMPLETE? So before you tell him/her 
how to do this, you should let him/her know what is a complete 
 sentence? Because so far as I know a complete sentence is one which


gives a complete sense. Therefore in the light of this
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CatlinI'd appreciate it if someone could tell me whether the 'sentences' such as the following are complete sentences:

How to download the software?

How to operate the tool?

If not, how can we make them complete sentences? Further, can I use a structure like these as the title of a slide in my presentation?

Thanks in advance.

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