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51SENTENCE — n. f. Apophtegme, maxime, opinion exprimée d’une manière dogmatique. Les proverbes de Salomon sont autant de sentences. Le style de Sénèque est rempli de sentences. Une des plus belles sentences des anciens. Fam., Ne parler que par sentences,… …
52sentence — I n. judgment of a court 1) to impose, pass, pronounce (a) sentence 2) to carry out, execute a sentence 3) to serve (out) a sentence 4) to commute; reduce; suspend; vacate a sentence 5) a harsh, severe, stiff; light sentence 6) a death;… …
53Sentence Comprehension — Human language comprehension takes place whenever a reader or listener processes a language utterance, either in isolation or in the context of a conversation or a text. Many studies of the human language comprehension process have focused on… …
54Sentence-final particle — A sentence final particle, also sometimes referred to as a modal particle ,cite book | last=Lin | first=Huey Hannah | title=Contextualizing Linguistic Politeness in Chinese [http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send pdf.cgi/Lin%20Huey%20Hannah.pdf?acc num …
55Sentence diagram — X bar theory graph of the sentence He studies linguistics at the university. IP = Inflectional phrase. In pedagogy, a sentence diagram is a pictorial representation of the grammatical structure of a natural language sentence. A sentence diagram… …
56Sentence function — In linguistics, sentence function refers to a speaker s purpose in uttering a specific sentence; whether a listener is present or not. It answers the question: Why has this been said? The most basic sentence functions in the world s languages… …
57sentence — I UK [ˈsentəns] / US [ˈsent(ə)ns] noun [countable] Word forms sentence : singular sentence plural sentences *** 1) a group of words, usually including a subject and a verb, that express a statement, question, or instruction. A written sentence… …
58sentence — sentencer, n. /sen tns/, n., v., sentenced, sentencing. n. 1. Gram. a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of …
59Sentence (mathematical logic) — This article is a technical mathematical article in the area of predicate logic. For the ordinary English language meaning see Sentence, for a less technical introductory article see Statement (logic). In mathematical logic, a sentence of a… …
60sentence — sen|tence1 [ sent(ə)ns ] noun count *** 1. ) 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 PERIOD, QUESTION MARK, or… …
