Sentences – Utterance and propositions
What a sentence is ….
In simple terms, a sentence is a set of words that contain:
1.
a subject (what the sentence is about, the topic of the sentence)
2.
a predicate (what is said about the subject)
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Sentences – Utterance and propositions
What a sentence is ….
In simple terms, a sentence is a set of words that contain:
1.
a subject (what the sentence is about, the topic of the sentence)
2.
a predicate (what is said about the subject)
Look at this simple example:
The above example sentence is very short.
Of course, a sentence can be longer
and more complicated, but basically there is always a subject and a predicate.
Look at this longer example:
<----- sentence ----->
subject predicate
verb
Ram and Tara speak English when they are working.
Note that the predicate always contains a verb.
Sometimes, in fact, the predicate
is only a verb:
<----- sentence ----->
subje
ct
predicate
verb
Smoke rises.
So we can say that a sentence must contain at least a subject and verb.
Note: also that a sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop*
or a question mark or an exclamation mark.
Look at these examples:
People need food.
How are you?
Look out!
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