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A group of words beginning with a capital and ending with either a full stop, a question mark or an exclamation mark in their written form. To be distinguished from phrases, which are also groups of words but function as single grammatical units within sentences. [[User:Stefan Olejniczak|Stefan Olejniczak]] 08:44, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
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Largest unit of grammatical structure in language, independent of and subordinating any other syntactic unit, and consisting of several types (e.g. declaratives, i.e. statements) and patterns (e.g. compound sentences, i.e. comprising two or more clauses).

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Sentence (linguistics) [r]: Largest unit of grammatical structure in language, independent of and subordinating any other syntactic unit, and consisting of several types (e.g. declaratives, i.e. statements) and patterns (e.g. compound sentences, i.e. comprising two or more clauses).