Education English | Sentence | A sentence is a group of words that used to communicate ideas (Oshima and Hogue, 2007:164). It is a complete thought. Such a definition is inadequate; however, because of the vagueness of the term “complete thought”. It contains at least one subject and one verb and expresses a complete thought. According to Frank (1972:220-221), a sentence is a full predication containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb. Its arrangement may be symbolized by such formulas as S V O (subject + verb + object), N1 V N 2 (noun + verb + noun), or NP + VP (noun phrase + verb phrase). Sentences are generally classified in two ways, one by types and on by the number of formal predictions. The classification of sentences by types consists of declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. Moreover, the classification of sentences by number of formal predictions consists of simple, compound, complex, and compound complex sentences.
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