Sentence (384 bytes)
1: '''''Sentence''''', derived from [[Latin]] ''sententia'' (perce...
3: * [[Sentence (linguistics)]]
4: * [[Sentence (mathematical logic)]]
5: * [[Open sentence]] (a term that mathematics teachers attempted to ...
6: * [[Sentence (law)]]

Sentence (linguistics) (1254 bytes)
1: ...e rules, the imperative "Go!" can be considered a sentence, as could the word "I", carrying an unspoken verb...
3: ...phrase]] collectively form the [[predicate]] of a sentence.
5: In the [[English language]], linguists classify sentences into one of four types:
6: #[[Simple sentence]]
7: #[[Compound sentence (linguistics)|Compound sentence]]

Suspended sentence (864 bytes)
1: ...ntence had been suspended, then the person may be sentenced for the original offense.
3: ... to mitigate the effect of the penalty. Suspended sentence is often given to individual of some celebrity an...

Sentence case (2072 bytes)
1: ...|English]] sentence, i.e. the first letter of the sentence is capitalised, with the rest being lower case (u...
3: There are various other forms of sentence case (in the first sense), often developed for sp...
5: Here are some alternative sentence cases used in written English:
7: * Sentence case - first letter of the sentence captitalised, all others lower case (with the exc...
12: Here is a selection of sentence cases not used in standard English, but common in...

Sentence (music) (644 bytes)
1: In music a '''sentence''' is "the smallest [[period (music)|period]] in ...

Sentence diagramming (644 bytes)
1: ...ng''' is a method of showing the structure of a [[sentence]]. In the [[English language]], two techniques ca...
3: In the more traditional [[Reed-Kellogg sentence diagram]], different [[grammar|grammatical]] elem...
5: ...tive method, called a [[tree diagram]], organizes sentences into a tree-like structure.

Open sentence (3040 bytes)
1: ...ics]] of the 1960s, an '''open sentence''' is a [[sentence]] in which there are specific [[number]]s which, ...
5: ...ch replacements are known as ''solutions'' to the sentence.
6: An ''identity'' is an open sentence for which every number is a solution.
8: Examples of open sentences include:
16: Every open sentence must have (usually implicitly) a ''universe of di...

Complex sentence (905 bytes)
1: ...dependent clause]] is referred to as a '''complex sentence'''. The dependent clause is often introduced by a...
14: ...is is a [[compound sentence]] but not a [[complex sentence]].
17: ...ch] you gave me"''). This is a [[complex-compound sentence]].

Sentence extraction (2376 bytes)
1: '''Sentence extraction''' is a technique used for automatic s...
2: ...to identify the most salient sentences of a text. Sentence extraction is a low-cost approach compared to mor...
4: The major downside of applying sentence-extraction techniques to the task of summarizatio...
5: Nevertheless, sentence extraction summaries can give valuable clues to t...
8: ...uristics have been applied, the x highest-scoring sentences are included in the summary.

Sentence nucleus (737 bytes)
1: The nucleus is the tonic [[syllable]] of a sentence. It contributes to the meaning to such utterances...
3: A sentence has usually a word that stresses the importance o...

Simple sentence (155 bytes)
1: A '''simple sentence''' contains one subject and one verb. For example...

Atomic sentence (846 bytes)
1: ...ables. Otherwise the atomic formula is an [[open sentence]].
3: ...z'' be [[variable]] terms. Then these are atomic sentences:
8: but these are not atomic sentences:
13: ...culus|prop.calc.]] all atomic formulas are atomic sentences, because atomic propositions correspond to 0-[[a...

Sentence diagram (2202 bytes)
3: ...on of the [[grammar|gramatical]] structure of a [[sentence]] in a [[natural language]].
5: A sentence diagram is a form of a [[parse tree]].
9: A simple sentence is shown as
14: ... or a pronoun and functions as the subject of the sentence's main clause. To the right of the subject, a ve...
21: Sentence diagrams have been used for teaching grammar. <!-...

Sentence of Death (352 bytes)
1: '''Sentence Of Death''' is the first official album by [[Thra...

Sentence (law) (4539 bytes)
1: ...o a less harsh (or "softer") punishment, then the sentences is said to have been "mitigated". Sometimes [[mu...
5: In modern Latin systems the sentence is mainly the final act of any procedure in which...
7: Sentences are variously classified depending on:
9: **civil, penal, administrative, canon, ..., sentence.
10: **sentences of mere clearance, of condemnation, of constitut...

Compound sentence (286 bytes)
1: A '''compound sentence''' can refer, in similar ways, to two things
2: * In [[mathematical logic]], sentences formed using [[logical operator]]s to connect tw...
3: ...th a [[grammatical conjunction]]. See: [[compound sentence (linguistics)]].

Compound sentence (linguistics) (1040 bytes)
1: ...anguage]], a '''compound [[Sentence (linguistics)|sentence]]''' is composed of at least two [[independent cl...
9: *:The compound sentence is held together by a comma and the correlative c...
16: ...]. This is a [[complex sentence]], not a compound sentence.

Split order of a sentence (1398 bytes)
9: ...nguistic device used to emphasize the part of the sentence that would normally occur after the verb. For exa...

Garden path sentence (3563 bytes)
1: '''Garden path sentences''' are used in [[psycholinguistics]] to illustra...
7: ...voice|active]] [[intransitive verb|intransitive]] sentence, but stumbles upon reaching the word "fell." At ...
11: ... no ambiguity for some other verbs, even when the sentence structure is similar:
17: ...ser intervention to tell systems where individual sentences begin and end. Furthermore, incremental process...
19: bah... add this sentence only when there is sufficient stuff to say on amb...

Longest English sentence (2388 bytes)
1: ...[Jonathan Coe]] surpassed both with a 13,955 word sentence in his novel, [[The Rotters' Club]].
3: ...|Allen Ginsburg's]] poem ''[[Howl]]'' is one long sentence.
5: ... there is no upper bound on the length of English sentences.
11: :* If ''P'' and ''Q'' are sentences, so is "''P'' and ''Q''"
12: ...and ''N'' is a name, "''N'' said ' ''P'' ' " is a sentence.

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