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Do I need to repeat the subject after a semicolon splitting two sentences that have the same subject in formal written English?
Do I need to repeat the subject after a semicolon?
No.
He talked to the owners, which was understandable; paid the bills, which was not expectedcomma andno comma did not even ask for the money back, ...
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Do I need to repeat the subject after a semicolon splitting two sentences that have the same subject in formal written English?
Probably, this would have been frowned upon historically, but
He talked to the owners – which was understandable, paid the bills – which was not expected, and did not even ask for the money back – ...
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Subject identification in the sentence "All he does is invite random strangers on the internet to play games with him."
As the other answer says, the subject of the sentence is grammatically "all he does". But the sentence is essentially equivalent to
He only invites random strangers on the Internet to play ...
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Subject identification in the sentence "All he does is invite random strangers on the internet to play games with him."
The subject is the noun phrase "all he does," which consists of the pronoun "all" modified by the reduced relative clause "he does."
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What Is 'Given' Information according to the 'Given-before-New' Principle?
The relevant concepts are discourse-new and discourse-old (or "familiar" — or "given") information. Old information in understood as anything that is familiar in a given discourse. ...
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What Is 'Given' Information according to the 'Given-before-New' Principle?
Your first question asks if the given information in the Given-New principle refers a. to 'anything that we assume to be familiar' or b. to 'anything that has already been mentioned in the text' - or ...
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