Sentence
A sentence is a unit of language whose grammatical structure conforms to the laws of language and which is the main means of transmitting thought.[Iriskulov, 44].
A sentence is a word, sentence, phrase, or group of sentences or phrases that forms a syntactic unit that expresses a statement, question, order, wish, exclamation, or action [2].
A sentence expresses an opinion in the form of a statement, question, instruction or exclamation [3].
Sentences usually include a subject and a verb. The first word in a sentence is capitalized. The sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation mark [4].
There are four different kinds of sentences in English:
1. Declarative Sentence (it relays information, and it is punctuated with a period).
2. Interrogative Sentence (it asks direct questions, and it's punctuated with a question mark).
3. Exclamatory Sentence (expresses strong emotions, it is similar to declarative sentences in that it provides information, but it ends in an exclamation point).
4. Imperative Sentence (it tells someone to do something in the form of friendly advice, basic instructions or more forceful commands) [5].
There are four types of sentence structures:
1. The Simple sentence (contains only one independent clause) [6].
2. The compound sentence (consists of two or more independent clauses with no dependent one)
3. The complex sentence (contains one dependent clause and one or more independent clauses)
4. The compound-complex sentence (combines the two previous types) [Iriskulov, 49].
⠀ 1. Iriskulov A.I. (2006). Theoretical Grammar of English. Tashkent: Uzbek State World Languages University.
⠀ 2. Retrieved from: Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sentence].
⠀ 3. Retrieved from: Cambridge Online Dictionary [https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ru/словарь/английский/sentence].
⠀ 4. Retrieved from: Britannica Online-dictionary [https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/sentence].
⠀ 5. Retrieved from: Your Dictionary [https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/grammar/sentences/types-of-sentences.html].
⠀ 6. Retrieved from: https://www.thesaurus.com/e/grammar/what-are-the-types-of-sentence-structures/.