A sentence is the largest unit of any language. In English, it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full-stop, or a question mark, or an exclamation mark.
The sentence is generally defined as a word or a group of words that expresses a thorough idea by giving a statement/order, or asking a question, or exclaiming.
- Types of sentence
- A simple sentence
It expresses a single idea in a single clause.
- Examples :
- Joe drank coffee
- Joe drank coffee with Tom
- Joe drank coffee in the afternoon with Tom
- Joe and Tom drank coffee
- A compound sentence
It contains two ideas connected with a co-ordinator (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
- Examples :
- Joe drank coffee, and Tom played the guitar
- Adam drank water, but he was still thirsty
- A complex sentence
It contains two ideas connected by a subordinator (because, since, after, Although, or a relative pronoun such as that, which or who)
- Examples :
- Joe drank the tea that he bought in Chinatown.
- Although Adam drank water, he was still thirsty
- A compound – complex sentence
It hhas the elements of the complex and the compound sentence.
- Examples :
- Joe drank the tea that he bought in Chinatown, but Tom played the guitar
