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Originally Posted by Karen
More importantly, the word pleasure represents a 'noun'. In the English language, a complete sentence can have two words as long as you would have a noun followed by a verb followed by a full stop (.) Example, Weetabix fell. or Marcio swam. These examples reflect complete sentences by English language standards. In the example, My pleasure, you have written a noun followed by a noun.
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In the example, My pleasure, I've written a
possessive pronoun followed by a noun.
However, one need not speak only in whole sentences or grammatically correct sentences with some words understood. Lots of informal communication consists of fragments, interjections, single nouns, etc.
"Who ate my cookie?"
"John." (noun, fragment with an understood "ate it" or "did")
"Dang!" (interjection)
"Have another."
"Thanks!" (fragment for "I thank you for this delicious treat!")
"Do you know what you should do now?"
"What?" (pronoun, fragment for "What should I do now?")
"Go!" (an entire, grammatically correct sentence of one word, a verb, with the understood subject "you")
I've always considered forums (fora?) like this to operate relatively informally, so I thought the "My pleasure" might pass.
