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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

The show I really enjoyed

The show I really enjoyed.


Is the wording above a sentence?

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It begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop. So, formally, it should be a sentence. On the other hand, from the syntactic point of view, it is a noun phrase, not even a clause, with its head "The show" adjectivally modified by the clause "I really enjoyed". So, can a noun phrase be a sentence?

  

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It's a noun phrase which could function as the subject of a sentence. So it's technically a sentence fragment, not a sentence.

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  • It's a noun phrase which could function as the subject of a sentence.
  • So it's technically a sentence fragment, not a sentence.
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It's a noun phrase which could function as the subject of a sentence.

So it's technically a sentence fragment, not a sentence.

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What is the context? Is it intended to be a noun phrase, as in The show I really enjoyed was 'Chimps on Ice'. Or is it intended to be a sentence with the form of a main clause, where the direct object "the show" has been preposed to a position before the subject, probably for emphasis? Consider:

A: Did you enjoy the evening? B: The meal was only average. The show I reall

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You see this type of sentence sometimes in novels. For example:


"It was the best of the five shows we saw when we were in New York. The show I really enjoyed."

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