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33.45Add the guide tones carefully
G dominant needs:
B and F
to define traditional dominant function.
If melody/voicing adds:
A♭ and E♭,
you get altered tension.
But if you omit B:
the chord remains more ambiguous/sus-like.
Again, the 3rd controls function.