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Panda blue 483 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Type of usage.

Leave it on the table so I can collect it later.

This represents the most in depth analysis of the actress. Everyword taken from real interviews.



These examples miss the subject but they are implied. Are they wrong without the?

In the first example is the directed 'person' (you) the main subject or the person asking the question (I).



You should leave it

Her everyword taken.


  

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Leave it on the table so I can collect it later. This is an imperative. The implied subject is 'you', ie the person being spoken to, but it is omitted.

  • Leave it on the table so I can collect it later.
  • This is an imperative.
  • The implied subject is 'you', ie the person being spoken to, but it is omitted.
  • when forming an imperative.
  • This represents the most in depth analysis of the actress.
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Leave it on the table so I can collect it later. This is an imperative. The implied subject is 'you', ie the person being spoken to, but it is omitted. when forming an imperative.

This represents the most in depth analysis of the actress. You don't analyse an actress (unless you are a psychoanalyst

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No, "her' is just a determiner. The simple subject is 'word', or more fully the phrase 'her every word'.

(Actually, the original sentence did not specify that you were talking about the actress. It just seemed like a one-sentence example.)

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