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Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar <[log in to unmask]>
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Re: "completeness" vs. "incompleteness", etc.
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Bob Yates <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:27:15 -0600
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Just to add one more point to the "John is" construction.  One of the
famous aphorisms in Western thought is:

I think, therefore I am.

I have no sense that "I am" is incomplete.

Bob Yates

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