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>Laurie Little wrote:
>> The writer uses a partial sentence to introduce a list, then treats each
>> bullet/step as a continuance of this sentence; i.e. each starts with
>> lowercase.
>And Dick Margulis responds:
>Third, I insist that all items in a given list be complete sentences and
>end with a period or be fragments and end without a period. No mixing
>allowed.
So are imperative sentences with an understood subject (eg, "Do this or risk
utter annihilation.") viewed as "complete sentences?"
From your example response
>To do ..., you should
>* Do this, then do that; if you do the other thing, ...
imperative sentences with an understood subject are, indeed, complete sentences.
But I have been in Big Blue companies where "Do this" was *not* a complete
sentense.
