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Exodejavu Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

It seems to be an incomplete sentence

Hi,

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Wanting to change yourself finds its source in two wellsprings: self-hatred and self-affirmation. Self-affirmation takes what already exists in your personality (even if slightly stunted or twisted) and encourages its growth. Where self-affirmation is expansive, self-hatred is reductive, negating one's own personality while appropriating qualities external to it and applying them like thick pancake makeup.
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Quoted from “Who Shall I Be?” by Jennifer Crichton

I feel that the highlighted sentence lacks a main verb. (Is it?)
Is a complete sentence?
What is/are the dropped subject of "negating"?

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Simple subject and verb of the sentence: self-hatred is . All the rest are modifying phrases.

— Philip

  • Simple subject and verb of the sentence: self-hatred is .
  • All the rest are modifying phrases.
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Simple subject and verb of the sentence: self-hatred is. All the rest are modifying phrases.
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Oh my goodness. What was I thinking? I was being so stupid!
Thanks!!
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Pardon me for having some other questions.

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Where self-affirmation is expansive, self-hatred is reductive, negating one's own personality while appropriating qualities external to it and applying them like thick pancake makeup.
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I still cannot tell which is t
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exodejavuPardon me for having some other questions.

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Where self-affirmation is expansive, self-hatred is reductive, negating one's own personality while appropriating qualities external to it and applying them like thick pancake makeup.
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I still cannot tell which is the dropped subject of "negating." self-hatred is the dropped subje
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