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What is the shortest, valid sentence in English?
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“Go.”
A complete sentence must have a subject and a verb (source).
Go is the shortest, valid sentence in English because it contains an implied subject, which is you since the sentence is telling you to go. It also contains a verb, Go. Having both of those in only 2 letters makes “Go.” the shortest, valid sentence.
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Think of a verb that is telling someone to do something. What’s the shortest verb you can think of?
