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Originally Posted by hidari
You win HarryT... ... while considering that you are slightly more pedantic than me.... I could ask you where did you find that stone?.... you could say "the trail" implying many things... The verb is understood or the context or what have you....no verb spoken but it is understood...ie "(I found it while hiking on) the trail"... I am just surprised at the pedantic nature of some people on MR...not you in particular...but... if one speaks or reads more than one language... grammar becomes more of an ocean not a canal....but maybe with Latin or Ancient Greek the view is different..I am seeing it from Russian, Spanish, French...
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hidari, I'm not disagreeing with you - nobody's "winning" or "losing" here
. We all speak in sentence fragments, and it's perfectly understandable. You're absolutely right and I completely agree with you.
But rightly or wrongly, we don't write the language the same way we speak it, and things which are perfectly normal in spoken English are considered wrong when you write them down. The same is probably true in every language.