Contributor: Josef Essberger. What is a Sentence? In simple terms, a sentence is a set of words that contain: a subject what the sentence is about, the topic of the sentence , and a predicate what is said about the subject Look at this simple example: sentence subject predicate verb You speak English. Look at this longer example: sentence subject predicate verb Ram and Tara speak English when they are working.
Sometimes, in fact, the predicate is only a verb: sentence subject predicate verb Smoke rises. Look at these examples of the imperative, with and without a subject: sentence subject predicate verb Stop! Wait a minute!
You look! Everybody look! Here are some examples of complete and incomplete thoughts: complete thought? YES Come in, please. B2 a punishment given by a judge in court to a person or organization after they have been found guilty of doing something wrong :. The judge will pronounce sentence on the defendant this afternoon. Grammar Clauses and sentences. What is a clause? What is a sentence?
Sentence structures. Types of sentence. B2 to decide and say officially what a punishment will be:. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. Compare condemn. Her sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment. As it was her first conviction for stealing , she was given a less severe sentence. In some countries , drug-smuggling still carries the death sentence. The judge made an example of him and gave him the maximum possible sentence. He won his appeal and the sentence was halved.
Your sentences are too long and complicated. She served a three-year prison sentence. Examples of sentence. These were 4 x 6 color photographs of figurines positioned to correspond to the events described in the sentence stimuli.
From the Cambridge English Corpus. Accepting the purely syntactic part of this extremely simple analysis, let us consider the semantics of the sentence. The participants read 60 sentences in random order in a sentence reading task. Such sentences with an active sentence construction but a reversal of thematic roles were absent from the data. The participants were told that they would hear each sentence four times in a row, with less noise on each successive presentation.
The data were analysed as case studies and for common themes, as expressed in single words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even entire documents. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.
Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment.
I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K. And I interpret dreams for the other women. She was issued a life sentence , which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.
So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty. As Orange County Superior Court observed, Bill Gross's conduct was' defiant and contemptuous,' and Amy Gross's testimony was' preposterous' and' lacking in credibility,' hopefully, the Court's ruling of a five-day jail sentence causes The Grosses to finally realize The Grosses billions do not mean they are above the law.
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Term » Definition. Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 3. Wiktionary 3. The judge declared a sentence of death by hanging for the infamous cattle rustler. The judge sentenced the embezzler to ten years in prison, along with a hefty fine. Webster Dictionary 1. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases Etymology: [F. See Proposition, 4 Etymology: [F. Freebase 0. Chambers 20th Century Dictionary 0. Military Dictionary and Gazetteer 0. Matched Categories String Of Words.
How to pronounce sentence? Alex US English.
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