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Though I would say those are also not quite sentences. It doesn't matter. I in my book it is more productive to teach people something like "All sentences mus
by adrianratnapala 9y ago
Though I would say those are also not quite sentences.
It doesn't matter.
I in my book it is more productive to teach people something like "All sentences must have a verb. But that doesn't mean you always have to speak in sentences." than to teach something like "Any reasonable utterance is a sentence, but we can give you no clear guidance on what that means".
- criddell 9y agoWhat's more productive about it? I asked Google for a definition and it gave me this: > a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses. That sounds about right to me.
- acjohnson55 9y agoBut at that point, a sentence just becomes a purely theoretical concept, rather than a complete class. Human expression is maddeningly difficult to cleanly categorize, eh?
- paulddraper 9y agoTrue.