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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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"You have been more than a year without an incident."

"You have been more than a year without an incident."

Is the sentence structure okay to use? I know that "It has been ( time )...structure" is fine but how more than a year can be a subject complement in the sentence? Thank you for great answers and help as always.
  

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It looks OK to me. You have gone more than a year ... is also often heard.

— Cool Breeze

  • It looks OK to me.
  • You have gone more than a year ...
  • is also often heard.
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It looks OK to me. You have gone more than a year... is also often heard.

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Anonymous"You have been more than a year without an incident."Is the sentence structure okay to use? I know that "It has been ( time )...structure" is fine but how more than a year can be a subject complement in the sentence? Thank you for great answers and help as always.
I take it you used have instead of has since more than a year implie
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screamererI take it you used have instead of has since more than a year implies plurality? further yet, you replaced you for it to qualify for have..?
Anon correctly used 'have' with the subject 'you' and 'has' with the subject 'it'.
screamererIt has been more than a year without an incident.
Anon's original sentence was fin
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fivejedjonAnon correctly used 'have' with the subject 'you' and 'has' with the subject 'it'.
Never have I suggested otherwise.
fivejedjonAnon's original sentence was fine.
Couldn't agree more.

I never said his sentence was wrong, I merely guessed at what he might have thought and suggested that if he wrote that sen
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"It has been more than a year without an incident" sounds unnatural to me. The referent of "it" is murky, and the reader wonders what has been without an incident.
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