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>[single word]
>[number]
>[first name] [last name]
>The X
>An X
>X and Y
>An X of Y
>The X of Y
>[adjective] [noun]
>[noun]'s [thing]
some other one maybe?

>> No.23395347

>[TITLE];or, [SOMETHING ELSE]

>> No.23395384

>>23395347
fpbp

>> No.23395397

>>23395337
>The Octopine Guardian of Virginity
Great book.

>> No.23395403

>[sentence]
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Everything That Rises Must Converge

>> No.23395416
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23395416

>>23395403
> A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
>What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Am I retarded or are these incomplete sentences?
Or both?

>> No.23395450

>>23395347
This.

>> No.23395458

>>23395416
They're not complete sentences. Complete sentence titles are fairly rare but not hugely rare:

I Shall Fear No Evil
Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept

>> No.23395546

>[noun] [verbed]
Paradise Lost, Jerusalem Delivered, etc.

>> No.23395612

>>23395347
fippity bippity

>> No.23395644
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23395644

For me, it's
>[paragraph that summarizes the book]

>> No.23395696

>>23395416
They first one is obviously complete.
>I'll never do again a supposedly fun thing.
The second one is complete or incomplete contingently.
>We talk about what when we talk about love.
The relative "what" would normally be the demonstrative "that", so it is incomplete for common English. But it's a poetic trick to substitute the first for the second, so in that sense it would be complete. Milton frequently does this in Paradise Lost.
>To whom sad Eve replied. (Instead of "To him").

>> No.23395763

>>23395546
Penis Ejaculate

>> No.23395768

for me?
[ADJECTIVE] [NOUN]

>> No.23395777

>>23395768
good choice

>> No.23396219

[NOUN]

>> No.23396769

>>23395337
Puns/wordplay
>pic in OP
wood berry

>> No.23397310

>>23395696
The first one,
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again,
is not complete for the reason that the word 'Thing' is the subject and 'I' is the object, whereas in your reconstruction you made it so that 'I' is the subject. The second half of the unfinished sentence,
>[that] I'll Never Do Again,
is only a postmodifier ('Supposedly Fun Thing' being the premodifier, as it comes before the subject). You can tell whether a word or phrase, or even a clause, in a sentence is a grammatical (pre- or post-) modifier by asking,
>What sort of Thing?
The answer in this case being:
>A-Supposedly-Fun Thing
and
>A Thing [that]-I'll-Never-Do-Again.

>> No.23397318

>>23395347
FPBP