Obama would be sent.

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Ayon Khan

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Are my sentences grammatically correct (even if there is no other pre-condition and no sentence precedes them) :

Structure: Would be + Verb in the past participle (Passive Sentence)

Example:

  1. Obama would be sent.
  2. We would be given the guitar.

Structure: Would have + No Verb
Example:
3. I would have a pen.
4. Rahul would have a book.
5. We would not have any money.

Structure: Would have + Verb in past participle

Example:
6. I would have come home.
7. He would have left for Delhi.
 

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They are all grammatically possible. It is impossible to say whether they are 'correct' without more context/co-text.
 
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Again, Ayon Khan, please note that I have changed your thread title.

Extract from the Posting Guidelines:

'Thread titles should include all or part of the word/phrase being discussed.'



 

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Thanks for your reply.
Are these sentences grammatically correct, and can they stand alone as a sentence?


1. I didn’t watch you play, otherwise, I would have been your fan.

2. I would have been playing since morning.

3. She would have been reading for two hours.

4. I would have been sent.

5. We would have been given water.
 

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The first is OK apart from the punctuation.
The others, like your original sentences are all grammatically possible. It is impossible to say whether they are 'correct' without more context/co-text.
 

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can they stand alone as a sentence?

This isn't a good question, Ayon Khan. Almost all sentences that we utter are produced as part of some kind of discourse, such as a conversation, or a monologue, or a story, etc. They can't stand alone.

I suspect that what you may be asking is whether they are grammatically and semantically well-formed sentences. If so, the answer is yes.
 

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I can't think of any natural context for 1, 3 and 4.
 
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