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Subject:Re: initial caps in steps and bulleted lists From:Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net> To:Dan Roberts <droberts63 -at- earthlink -dot- net> Date:Thu, 15 Jun 2000 06:54:50 -0400
Dan,
The overall construction forms a series of complete sentences if you
fill in the implied ellipsis preceding each list item, but that wasn't
the desideratum. The question is whether each list item, taken by
itself, is a complete sentence.
HTH,
Dick
Dan Roberts wrote:
>
> Just to be an annoyance,
>
>
> 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.
