Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job! — As office occupancy rates stagnate, employers are giving up on perks and turning to threats::undefined

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      1 year ago

      The first sentence is also a sentence fragment and the period should be placed before the ending quotation marks.

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        Does the period in quotation mark rule applies to quotes? I don’t think it does, but this stuff always confuses me.

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          It actually might be correct they way they did it since they were quoting a word rather than a complete sentence. It is indeed confusing. I figured if I were wrong, someone might correct me and I’d learn something.

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      “not very persuasive” is not a sentence fragment. Sentences need a subject, verb, and a complete thought.

      “Don’t do that” has an implied subject of (you). “Not very persuasive” shares the same type implied subject and is a complete sentence.

      Bonus fun fact, the shortest complete sentence in the English language is “I am” but not “I’m” because contractions are inherently dependent.

      https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-an-implied-subject#:~:text=Implied subjects occur when a,the subject is not mentioned.

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        “Don’t do that” is a correct imperative sentence, which as your link says does not have a subject. “Not very persuasive” is not imperative and is indeed a sentence fragment.