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The statement that best describes the sentence above is: the sentence is missing a predicate. the given statement above is only a subject which is "the woman" and the phrase that describes the subject "standing in the corner". this statement lacks the main verb. "standing" is used as a modifier of the noun in the sentence and not as the main sentence.