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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Sorry, Kenny, but "This really grates" is a complete sentence. It has a subject ("This"), a verb ("grates"), and an adverb ("really"). That's one more part of speech than is needed to form a complete sentence; all that's required is a subject and a verb. For example; the shortest sentence in the Christian Bible to my knowledge—certainly the shortest verse—is "Jesus wept."
No Karma for that one, bud!
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Nope, you need a direct object if 'grates" is a verb. .... of course I'm no Ronald Regan, nor do I play one on the internet...
I suppose in isolation if "this" does not refer to the previous sentence they yeah it could be construed to be a complete sentence, say if I were holding a cheese grader and said it.
