Oh, yes, and then there are incomplete sentences like those last three. ... Why would we want to write a "partial" sentence when we can rewrite to make a "complete" one? For flow.

Sentences of this type are presenting the existence of a condition, and any verb used would be an empty placeholder just to fill a syntactic role. You can use a verb, but you don't always have to.

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

Any incomplete sentence is a defective one, for no matter how eloquent it remains unable to convey the intended meaning and becomes like good intentions with which the road to hell is paved.

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