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Aha...you have the answer.
Hint: from my original comment in #7
"Try to find A correct answer"
Yes, it is the "I" for both questions.
I really agree with the reasons too.
Why? Read on.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/258/shortest-complete-sentence-in-english
The shortest sentence in the entire English Language, is the reply.:
I
It is a reply to the question: "Who is it?" Reply: "I"
That's shorter than "Go!"
http://www.helium.com/items/795133-the-shortest-complete-sentence-in-the-english-language
"I am" is held by some to be both the shortest and the most meaningful sentence in the English language. It is certainly short; and it meets the technical criteria of a meaningful sentence, containing as it does both subject and predicate. As to meaning, surely anyone can see that standing alone as it does it cannot be anything but ambiguous. It begs the question altogether as to what the speaker is. Perhaps he means merely that he exists. Well, so does a stone: so what?
So it is with simple one-word answers to questions. According to Fowler, surely as as good a final authority as can be found, a sentence doesn't necessarily need to contain within itself both subject and predicate: each may be inferred as present in the sentence by means of implication. Thus "I", in response to the question "Who has borrowed my pen", meets the criteria. It borrows by implication the noun "pen" and the verb "borrow" from the question asked.
Therefore "I" must be as short a sentence as is possible. A single symbol, it is just as short as any punctuation mark, and as distinct from punctuation marks it is an actual word. The trouble with it is that standing alone as a sentence in its own right it contains no meaning at all.
and Happy New Year to you too.
Well done.
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