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Sitting here this morning pondering what the whole world is wondering, “will we ever see the end to this dreadful pandemic!”
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” It is not a complete sentence because there is no subject, but that is fine if that's what you want. The switch from "pondering" to "wondering" sounds like a deliberate device to avoid repetition and is therefore distracting. The full sentence inside the quotation marks has to begin with a capital letter.
- ” It is not a complete sentence because there is no subject, but that is fine if that's what you want.
- The switch from "pondering" to "wondering" sounds like a deliberate device to avoid repetition and is therefore distracting.
- The full sentence inside the quotation marks has to begin with a capital letter.
- The exclamation point strikes the reader as an attempt to generate vigor with a symbol, and it has to be a question mark, anyway.
- "The end to" is unidiomatic.
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anon006Is this okay:
Sitting here this morning pondering what the whole world is wondering, “will we ever see the end to this dreadful pandemic!”
It is not a complete sentence because there is no subject, but that is fine if that's what you want. The switch from "pondering" to "wondering" sounds like a deliberate device to avoid repetition and
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