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Originally Posted by arjaybe
Why would it make no sense? I don't see the problem.
"Do you mean when I was dying?" Fran finished for him.
It looks as if it could be two sentences to me.
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It's all about clause and effect.
"Fran finished for him." is a subordinate follow-up to her dialogue bit, unless Fran is finishing something for him other than the sentence she is saying.
If you were to split it into two separate sentences, like thus (spaced in between for demonstrative emphasis):
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"Do you mean when I was dying?"
Fran finished for him.
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they would no longer be linked in meaning, which is what I'm assuming you're trying to go for, and Fran finishing something for him would be a separate activity unrelated to her words.