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==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''sententia'' [[feeling]], [[opinion]], from ''sentent''-, ''sentens'', irregular present participle of ''sentire'' to feel
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: obsolete : [[opinion]]; especially : a [[conclusion]] given on request or reached after [[deliberation]]
*2a : [[judgment]] specifically : one formally pronounced by a [[court]] or [[judge]] in a [[criminal]] proceeding and specifying the [[punishment]] to be inflicted upon the convict
:b : the punishment so imposed <serve out a sentence>
*3: archaic : maxim, saw
*4a : a [[word]], clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a [[syntactic]] [[unit]] which [[expresses]] an assertion, a [[question]], a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the [[performance]] of an [[action]], that in [[writing]] usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic [[patterns]] of stress, pitch, and pauses
:b : a [[mathematical]] or [[logical]] [[statement]] (as an [[equation]] or a [[proposition]]) in [[words]] or [[symbols]]
==Description==
A '''sentence''' is a linguistic unit consisting of one or more [[words]] that are [[grammatically]] linked. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to [[express]] a statement, question, exclamation, request, command or suggestion. A sentence is a set of words that in principle tells a complete [[thought]] (although it may make little sense taken in [[isolation]] out of [[context]]); thus it may be a simple phrase, but it conveys enough [[meaning]] to imply a clause, even if it is not explicit. For example, "Two" as a sentence (in answer to the question "How many were there?") implies the clause "There were two". Typically a sentence contains a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_(grammar) subject] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(grammar) predicate]. A sentence can also be defined purely in orthographic terms, as a group of words starting with a capital letter and ending in a full stop. (However, this definition is useless for unwritten languages, or [[languages]] written in a system that does not employ both devices, or precise analogues thereof.) For instance, the opening of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House begins with the following three sentences:
::London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather.
The first sentence involves one word, a proper noun. The second sentence has only a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-finite_verb non-finite verb] (although using the definition given above, e.g. "Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall." would be a sentence by itself). The third is a single [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_group_(functional_grammar) nominal group]. Only an orthographic definition [[encompasses]] this variation.
In the teaching of [[writing]] [[skills]] (composition skills), students are generally required to [[express]] (rather than imply) the elements of a sentence, leading to the schoolbook definition of a sentence as one that must [explicitly] include a subject and a verb. For example, in second-language acquisition, teachers often reject one-word answers that only imply a clause, commanding the student to "give me a complete sentence", by which they mean an explicit one.
As with all language [[expressions]], sentences might contain function and content words and contain properties such as characteristic intonation and [[timing]] patterns.
Sentences are generally characterized in most languages by the [[inclusion]] of a finite verb, e.g. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)]
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
==Origin==
[http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''sententia'' [[feeling]], [[opinion]], from ''sentent''-, ''sentens'', irregular present participle of ''sentire'' to feel
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century 14th Century]
==Definitions==
*1: obsolete : [[opinion]]; especially : a [[conclusion]] given on request or reached after [[deliberation]]
*2a : [[judgment]] specifically : one formally pronounced by a [[court]] or [[judge]] in a [[criminal]] proceeding and specifying the [[punishment]] to be inflicted upon the convict
:b : the punishment so imposed <serve out a sentence>
*3: archaic : maxim, saw
*4a : a [[word]], clause, or phrase or a group of clauses or phrases forming a [[syntactic]] [[unit]] which [[expresses]] an assertion, a [[question]], a command, a wish, an exclamation, or the [[performance]] of an [[action]], that in [[writing]] usually begins with a capital letter and concludes with appropriate end punctuation, and that in speaking is distinguished by characteristic [[patterns]] of stress, pitch, and pauses
:b : a [[mathematical]] or [[logical]] [[statement]] (as an [[equation]] or a [[proposition]]) in [[words]] or [[symbols]]
==Description==
A '''sentence''' is a linguistic unit consisting of one or more [[words]] that are [[grammatically]] linked. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to [[express]] a statement, question, exclamation, request, command or suggestion. A sentence is a set of words that in principle tells a complete [[thought]] (although it may make little sense taken in [[isolation]] out of [[context]]); thus it may be a simple phrase, but it conveys enough [[meaning]] to imply a clause, even if it is not explicit. For example, "Two" as a sentence (in answer to the question "How many were there?") implies the clause "There were two". Typically a sentence contains a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_(grammar) subject] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicate_(grammar) predicate]. A sentence can also be defined purely in orthographic terms, as a group of words starting with a capital letter and ending in a full stop. (However, this definition is useless for unwritten languages, or [[languages]] written in a system that does not employ both devices, or precise analogues thereof.) For instance, the opening of Charles Dickens's novel Bleak House begins with the following three sentences:
::London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. Implacable November weather.
The first sentence involves one word, a proper noun. The second sentence has only a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-finite_verb non-finite verb] (although using the definition given above, e.g. "Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall." would be a sentence by itself). The third is a single [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_group_(functional_grammar) nominal group]. Only an orthographic definition [[encompasses]] this variation.
In the teaching of [[writing]] [[skills]] (composition skills), students are generally required to [[express]] (rather than imply) the elements of a sentence, leading to the schoolbook definition of a sentence as one that must [explicitly] include a subject and a verb. For example, in second-language acquisition, teachers often reject one-word answers that only imply a clause, commanding the student to "give me a complete sentence", by which they mean an explicit one.
As with all language [[expressions]], sentences might contain function and content words and contain properties such as characteristic intonation and [[timing]] patterns.
Sentences are generally characterized in most languages by the [[inclusion]] of a finite verb, e.g. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)]
[[Category: Languages and Literature]]
