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I'm a native English speaker, but I'm just not sure about this sentence: Who, then, told me to make to eat a cookie, during the time in which I was taking a break.
Is that a complete sentence or is it a fragment'

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updated NOV 19, 2008
posted by Katie

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i think you have too many "to"s in there.
i would say it more along the lines of "who, then, told me to make a cookie to eat, during the time in which i was taking a break."

updated NOV 17, 2008
posted by christian
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My knowledge of English grammar is rather sketchy, and it would take a long time for me to go over my English grammars until I could analyse the whole thing, but it appears to be badly constructed, especially that "to make to eat". Otherwise, the whole line is, in itself, just a clause, not a full sentence.

updated NOV 17, 2008
posted by lazarus1907
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I'd say it was an incomplete question since it is missing a grammatical element.

Subject = Who
main verb=told
me=indirect object
to make ''? to eat a cookie=prepositional phrase serving a noun clause or direct object
during the time in which I was taking a break. (elliptical, adverbial, subordinate clause)

No matter what, it is an awkward question in English.

updated NOV 17, 2008
posted by 0074b507
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