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Clarence Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Missing Subject?

Hi,

Is this sentence grammatically sound? as the Subject seems to be missing:

Yes, as mentioned during training, one customer should only have one record in the system.

Clarence
  

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Responses to questions don't always look like normal sentences. The subject is "customer." However, I would change it to "should have only one" instead of "should only have one."
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Hi Barbara,

Do we need a subject "I" for 'as mentioned during training,'?

Clarence
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ClarenceDo we need a subject "I" for 'as mentioned during training,'?
Only if you want to indicate the agent. You can leave the way it is, which makes more impersonal.
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Thank you for your replies.
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A missing subject is usually in this form

Yes, as [it was] mentioned during training, one customer should only have one record in the system.

... only have one record

  • I should only swim in the pool = I should do nothing else except swim in the pool
  • I should swim only in the pool = I should swim nowhere else except in the pool

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