Is This a Sentence?

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Mott.Jeff@gmail.com - 03 Jan 2007 01:11 GMT

"Examine each moment."

If this is in fact a sentence, it seems to me that the subject is,
implicitly, the reader. That is:

"You, examine each moment."

So, is the former actually a sentence? I find that I cannot clearly
distinguish the subject and the predicate.

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mm - 03 Jan 2007 02:57 GMT

> "Examine each moment."
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>So, is the former actually a sentence?

Yes, it is an imperative sentence, with a verb in the imperative mood
(I think the word is mood.) And, yes, the unspoken. understood
subject is "you" or "You".

>I find that I cannot clearly
>distinguish the subject and the predicate.

It's good that you're interested in all this. I was harsh in the
previous post, but I think you would enjoy reading some book on
grammar, although I myself don't know of an interesting one. Even a
non-engrossing one might well interest you, say 10 pages every few
days. Or a chapter every week.

If you are inclined to email me
for some reason, remove NOPSAM :-)

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Is This a Sentence?