What is Sentence: (defination)

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a group of words, usually including a subject and a verb, that express a statement, question, or instruction. A written sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, question mark, or exclamation mark.

a group of words that expresses a statement, question, command, or wish.

Examples of SENTENCE

1. He is serving a 10-year sentence for armed robbery.

Origin of SENTENCE

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin sententia feeling, opinion, from *sentent-, *sentens, irregular present participle of sentire to feel — more at sense

First Known Use: 14th century

Full Definition of SENTENCE

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:  to impose a sentence on

2:  to cause to suffer something <sentenced these most primitive cultures to extinction

 — E. W. Count>

Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.