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English is weird
Thrillho:
Put a comma after 'language.'
Tova:
Clever, but doesn't that turn it into a completely correct sentence fragment?
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 14 Jun 2017, 03:47 ---Put a comma after 'language.'
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A colon, surely, or possibly a question mark?
And yes, it's a fragment, but one for which it is not hard to construct a context in which it could be used meaningfully as an acceptable and idiomatic shorthand.
jwhouk:
One word needs to be moved, is all.
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Case:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 14 Jun 2017, 00:01 ---Fix the following sentence so it is completely correct:
The most common word in the English language is.
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"The" is the most common word in the English language.
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