diff --git a/internal/lsp/source/completion/postfix_snippets.go b/internal/lsp/source/completion/postfix_snippets.go
index 2c3c6e9fa5..4c5cb0ef1f 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/source/completion/postfix_snippets.go
+++ b/internal/lsp/source/completion/postfix_snippets.go
@@ -303,11 +303,25 @@ func (c *completer) addPostfixSnippetCandidates(ctx context.Context, sel *ast.Se
 		return
 	}
 
+	tokFile := c.snapshot.FileSet().File(c.pos)
+
 	// Only replace sel with a statement if sel is already a statement.
 	var stmtOK bool
 	for i, n := range c.path {
 		if n == sel && i < len(c.path)-1 {
-			_, stmtOK = c.path[i+1].(*ast.ExprStmt)
+			switch p := c.path[i+1].(type) {
+			case *ast.ExprStmt:
+				stmtOK = true
+			case *ast.AssignStmt:
+				// In cases like:
+				//
+				//   foo.<>
+				//   bar = 123
+				//
+				// detect that "foo." makes up the entire statement since the
+				// apparent selector spans lines.
+				stmtOK = tokFile.Line(c.pos) < tokFile.Line(p.TokPos)
+			}
 			break
 		}
 	}
@@ -328,7 +342,6 @@ func (c *completer) addPostfixSnippetCandidates(ctx context.Context, sel *ast.Se
 	//
 	// and adjust afterDot so that we don't mistakenly delete the
 	// newline thinking "bar" is part of our selector.
-	tokFile := c.snapshot.FileSet().File(c.pos)
 	if startLine := tokFile.Line(sel.Pos()); startLine != tokFile.Line(afterDot) {
 		if tokFile.Line(c.pos) != startLine {
 			return
diff --git a/internal/lsp/testdata/snippets/postfix.go b/internal/lsp/testdata/snippets/postfix.go
index 29b419225f..d29694e835 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/testdata/snippets/postfix.go
+++ b/internal/lsp/testdata/snippets/postfix.go
@@ -25,3 +25,18 @@ func _() {
 	var blah func() []int
 	blah().append //@complete(" //")
 }
+
+func _() {
+	/* append! */ //@item(postfixAppend, "append!", "append and re-assign slice", "snippet")
+	/* last! */ //@item(postfixLast, "last!", "s[len(s)-1]", "snippet")
+	/* print! */ //@item(postfixPrint, "print!", "print to stdout", "snippet")
+	/* range! */ //@item(postfixRange, "range!", "range over slice", "snippet")
+	/* reverse! */ //@item(postfixReverse, "reverse!", "reverse slice", "snippet")
+	/* sort! */ //@item(postfixSort, "sort!", "sort.Slice()", "snippet")
+	/* var! */ //@item(postfixVar, "var!", "assign to variable", "snippet")
+
+	var foo []int
+	foo. //@complete(" //", postfixAppend, postfixCopy, postfixLast, postfixPrint, postfixRange, postfixReverse, postfixSort, postfixVar)
+
+		foo = nil
+}
diff --git a/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden b/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden
index 8c4c72a4c7..6db15ec330 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden
+++ b/internal/lsp/testdata/summary.txt.golden
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 -- summary --
 CallHierarchyCount = 2
 CodeLensCount = 5
-CompletionsCount = 262
+CompletionsCount = 263
 CompletionSnippetCount = 95
 UnimportedCompletionsCount = 5
 DeepCompletionsCount = 5