sentence structure
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsentenceandstructure
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sentence
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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(Definition ofsentenceandstructurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The same is true ofsentencestructure.
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Thesentencestructure, however, is that of the vernacular.
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The other crucial factor was thesentencestructure.
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The variety is less in the choice of individual words, more insentencestructure.
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The syntactic bootstrapping theory suggests thatsentencestructurecan inform verb learning.
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This suggests that children are guided bysentencestructureto infer the meaning of a verb.
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They have different word order constraints with regard tosentencestructure.
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The translation programs do not analysesentencestructureor keep track of parts of speech.
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Perhaps the most widely attested factor favoring the zero relative issentencestructure.
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This is a condition that the feature structures constitute asentencestructure.
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Moreover,sentencestructureinfluences the use of relative markers in each variety to a greater or lesser degree.
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Figure 1 is intended to show the linear development of asentencestructurethat is interrupted by an intervening string.
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This inability to understand context also means that a computer cannot accurately check grammar andsentencestructure.
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The text includes practical suggestions, self-evaluation exercises, as well as tips on style,sentencestructure, punctuation, and vocabulary.
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The term "syntax" in generative grammars correlates to its use in natural language, where it determines validsentencestructure.
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In grammar, there are hundreds of constructions governing the patterns of word-formation (morphology),sentencestructure, and sentence sequence (syntax).
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These messages exhibit a great deal of nonstandard variation insentencestructureand lexical choice, as the following examples show.
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Confirmation will have to await further research that systematically variessentencestructureat the end of line break points.
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Crucially, the reformulation of sentences required the use of asentencestructurewhere the expletive subjects had to be absent.
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Here, unlike subject relatives,sentencestructuredoes not condition the occurrence of the zero variant in every community.
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Children are not explicitly taughtsentencestructure.
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Many key passages contain three levels of text: the basicsentencestructure, multiple parenthetical restatements of the main text's phrases, and end-notes.
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