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Judges & juries
Grammar
Clauses and sentences
A clause is the basic unit of grammar. A clause must contain a verb. Typically a clause is made up of a subject, a verb phrase and, sometimes, a complement:…
What is a clause?
A clause is the basic unit of grammar. A clause must contain a verb. Typically a clause is made up of a subject, a verb phrase and, sometimes, a complement:…
What is a sentence?
A sentence is a unit of grammar. It must contain at least one main clause. It can contain more than one clause. In writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop:…
Sentences
A sentence is a unit of grammar. Typically, in writing, it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop.…
Sentence structures
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Types of sentence
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sentence
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lawspecializeduk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
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todecideand sayofficiallywhat apunishmentwill be:
（法官）宣布判决，宣判
He was sentencedtolifeimprisonment.他被判终身监禁。
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Her sentence wascommutedfromdeathtolifeimprisonment.
As it was her firstconvictionforstealing, she was given a lessseveresentence.
In somecountries, drug-smuggling stillcarriesthedeathsentence.
Thejudgemade anexampleof him and gave him themaximumpossiblesentence.
These were 4 x 6 color photographs of figurines positioned to correspond to the events described in thesentencestimuli.
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Accepting the purely syntactic part of this extremely simple analysis, let us consider the semantics of thesentence.
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The participants read 60 sentences in random order in asentencereading task.
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Such sentences with an activesentenceconstruction but a reversal of thematic roles were absent from the data.
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The participants were told that they would hear eachsentencefour times in a row, with less noise on each successive presentation.
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The data were analysed as case studies and for common themes, as expressed in single words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs or even entire documents.
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The third factor examined the role of thesentencestructural constraints.
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Likewise, the identical rater training scheme employed only 2 words and 2 sentences.
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Responses determined to be scorable were utterances that had sufficient structure to be deemed full or partial passive sentences or full or partial active sentences.
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The 'could' in the firstsentenceis worth noting but, passing quickly over this point, the 10 per cent figure seems arbitrary, at best.
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Verbal working memory insentencecomprehension in children with specific language impairment.
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The language is stilted, typical 'translatorese', so much so that some sentences are virtually incomprehensible.
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However, since these effects were not consistent across ages, whether co-referencing complexity alone is drivingsentence-processing speed is unclear.
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In the event that they understood only part of asentence, they were to write out as many words as they could identify.
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This is useful in situations where the actual position of a word within asentenceis significant.
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automatic sentence
That purpose is to maintain judicial discretion within the framework of an expectation of an automatic sentence.
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concluding sentence
I quoted a concluding sentence which, to any objective reader, appeared to be a summary of the entire argument.
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conditional sentence
For every item of this test, participants were given the main clause and the beginning of the subordinate clause of a conditional sentence.
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