Is this sentence grammatically incorrect: "The book is 20 pages."
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Is this sentence grammatically incorrect: "The book is 20 pages."
"The book is 20 pages."
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Why or why not?
What about the following similar sentences:
"The race is 13 miles."
"The building is 20 floors."
"The schoolchildren in the class are all 11 years."
"The movie is two hours."
Are all those all grammatically okay? All incorrect? Some okay and some not okay?
Keep in mind, I'm not asking how you would write those sentences or asking if there are clearer and better ways to write those sentences. Rather, I am asking simply whether they are objectively grammatically incorrect as written.
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The book is 20 pages long.
The building is 20 floors high.
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Formal writing requires a sentence with a subject and a verb.
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But, I would not leave it like this because there is nothing to describe the pages. Are the pages wet? Are the pages dry? Are the pages short? Are the pages long? If one were to use sentences like these in an essay or blog, they can make a blog post boring fast.
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