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Centrist12 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

Punctuation a must not have?

"How to be perfect"

Someone told me that because the sentence above is not a complete sentence, it must not have a punctuation.

Another told me that it is a statement and said it requires a full-stop.

I searched for the rule of punctuations: there is no such rule that an incomplete sentence must not have a punctuation, but I'm none the wiser. 

Can someone enlighten me?
  

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If a grammatically incomplete sentence is used within text as a sentence then it should have a full stop (or other stop, as appropriate). g. as a heading, then it may not need one.

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  • If a grammatically incomplete sentence is used within text as a sentence then it should have a full stop (or other stop, as appropriate).
  • g.
  • as a heading, then it may not need one.
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If a grammatically incomplete sentence is used within text as a sentence then it should have a full stop (or other stop, as appropriate). If it is used in some other context, e.g. as a heading, then it may not need one.

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If we take as a working definition a sentence to be an expression that begins with a capital letter and ends with some terminal mark, then your example does require a full stop to qualify as a sentence, such as might be found in a newspaper or magazine article:

How to be perfect.

Or perhaps with a question mark:

How to be perfect?



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