IIRC only SelectMany meets the criteria of a monad. The powerful part about LINQ is it builds an AST and there are many different LINQ providers which can tran

IIRC only SelectMany meets the criteria of a monad. The powerful part about LINQ is it builds an AST and there are many different LINQ providers which can translate that AST into some instructions to interact with other systems. The typical one is converting it to SQL commands but you could plug anything into it.