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Buranda Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Well, that and a computer - Is this vaild?

Hi,

Please see below.

This book represents blah blah blah~. All you need to provide is an eagerness to learn.

Well, that and a computer.

I guess there is no subject or verb in the last sentence. What is the sentence trying to say?

Thanks.
  

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Hi, I would have written the second and third sentences together like this: All you need to provide is an eagerness to learn and a computer. You are right, there is no subject or verb in the last sentence. It is written as a person would say it in conversation.

— TrysB

  • Hi, I would have written the second and third sentences together like this: All you need to provide is an eagerness to learn and a computer.
  • You are right, there is no subject or verb in the last sentence.
  • It is written as a person would say it in conversation.
  • It is ok to use that construction in informal writing, but an editor might change it to: All you need to provide is an eagerness to learn--well, that and a computer.
  • to show the connection between the two sentences.
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Hi,
I would have written the second and third sentences together like this:

All you need to provide is an eagerness to learn and a computer.

You are right, there is no subject or verb in the last sentence. It is written as a person would say it in conversation. It is ok to use that construction in informal writing, but an editor might
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Well, (you need) that and a computer.

that = eagerness to learn.

CJ
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