Grammar Questions From Scientific American

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<p>Are these sentences grammatically correct?</p>

<p>No,not the surgery itself: how to assess the risk of any given procedure and what to
tell the patient about it—and when.</p>

<p>The first step is to determine what type of task the team should accomplish; the next is to match the people to that mission.</p>

<p>I thought the phrase after the semicolon have to be complete sentences with a a subject and verb, but I don’t see that here. Could someone please explain. </p>

<p>BTW, these sentences are from Scientific American.</p>

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<p>“The next” would be the subject.</p>

<p>“Is” would be the verb. </p>

<p>When it says “the next,” it implies that it is the “next step.”</p>

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<p>bump…10char</p>