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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Incomplete sentence

Is it correct to use incomplete sentence in journalistic text?
"No autofill feature, no prompts, no history at all."
Or should I complete it like:
"There was/were no autofill feature, no prompts, no history at all."
If so, then what form of the verb "to be" should I use?
Thank you in advance!
  

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If you are a journalist, then you can use whatever your editor will accept. Otherwise, what do you mean by 'journalistic text'?

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  • Otherwise, what do you mean by 'journalistic text'?
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If you are a journalist, then you can use whatever your editor will accept. Otherwise, what do you mean by 'journalistic text'?
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Sorry, I translated Russian word into English literally. I was talking about writing styles: a newspaper article is certainly different from a technical documentation. I was thinking there might be some special rules for different styles.
I am not a journalist, so there is no editor. That's why I'm asking your for your advice, what option is correct:
1) No prompts, no autofill feature, no
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There are no sets of 'rules'; merely practice. The text must fit into the overall register of the entire context, so I really cannot comment on the options you offer.
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I recommend always using complete sentences in everything but fiction and casual writing like we do here. You run too many risks otherwise. I would say that a news story is formal writing, but a sports column is not. There are several kinds of journalism.

The verb should be "was" the way you have it. The verb gets mentally passed along the list when you don't use a conjunction, so you onl
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