A Complete sentence?

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Yinian

#472282 Mon, 04 Feb 08 02:20 AM

Is the following a complete sentence and if you could tell me why or why not.

Enough about the fish, let's get down to business.

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#472285 Mon, 04 Feb 08 02:29 AM

Enough about the fish. This is a shorthand way of saying, "Okay, we have talked about this fish enough." I would actually make it its own sentence, and not join it to the next one with a comma.

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Yinian

#472286 Mon, 04 Feb 08 02:32 AM

So you would make the sentence like this?

Okay, enough about the fish. Lets get down to business...

and then just finish that next sentence?

Yinian

Yankee

#472288 Mon, 04 Feb 08 02:35 AM

Enough about the fish, let's get down to business.

I'd call that a run-on sentence. Turning it into two sentences would fix that:
Enough about the fish. Let's get down to business.

The first sentence omits words, but would generally be understood as "That's enough ..."

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