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Is the following a complete sentence........?

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mary, trying out her new cookery book, that was delicious!

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  1. I'm sorry but no.

    You can say:

    1. Mary was trying out her new cookery book with loads of food that was delicious!

    2. Mary, trying out her new cookery book, cooked a delicious food!

    3. Mary, trying out her new cookery book, cooked a delicacy that was delicious!

    4. Mary was trying out her new cookery book and cooked delicious food.

    5. Mary was trying out her new cookery book and cooked food that was delicious!

    Actually, there are a lot of words to make that fragment a sentence.

    :-)


  2. No. It's a sentence fragment. There's no verb, unless you meant to say "...said that was delicious", but still, it's incorrect because the phrase "trying out her new cook book" is a dangling participle.

    Edit: "Mary was trying out her new cookery book which was delicious" is grammatically correct, but only if she ate the book.

  3. No, there is no verb.

    If you said "Mary was trying out her new cookery book which was delicious!" - then that would be a complete sentence.

    Obviously as has been pointed out below, it would be a nonsense sentence because she couldn't have eaten the book!!  Nice one guys - I missed that !!!!!!!

  4. No. You have to say that Mary was trying out her new cookery book , which had delicious recipes.

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  5. No verb, sorry!

  6. No, it's not a complete sentence as has already been stated.  It is, indeed, missing the verb.

    Also, I feel I should say that "trying out her new cookery book" is not a dangling participle because it agrees with the subject of the sentence (Mary).

    If you're trying to make it a complete sentence, a good example would be, "Mary, trying out her new cookery book, made food that was delicious!".

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