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Is, "Seeing the nurses caring for him inspired me," a full sentence?​

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Yes...

Step-by-step explanation:

A complete sentence, AKA an independent clause, consists of a subject, verb, and complete thought. Let's analyze this sentence real quick to get you an answer!

The sentence:

Seeing the nurses caring for him inspired me.

Now, because the question is if this is a complete sentence or not, all we need to do is identify the key parts of the sentence.

The sentence is talking about how someone was inspired by the actions of others, so lets take the last verb in the sentence: "inspired"

Now let's go back to the sentence and match our verb with a subject.

Seeing the nurses caring for him inspired me.

Who was inspired? "me," or the author.

Now the last step is to make sure the sentence makes sense for the complete thought criteria. If this sentence only had one subject and verb it would sound something like this:

Their actions inspired me.

Pretty straightforward huh?

Because all three criteria were met, it is overly safe to assume that this sentence is indeed complete.

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