0 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 when written: --
Your conclusion is good, but the final sentence is too long and complicated.
He's very impatient and always interrupts me mid-sentence.
1 a punishment given by a judge in court to a person or organization after they have been found guilty of doing something wrong: --
2 to decide and say officially what a punishment will be: --
He was sentenced to life imprisonment.
3 a group of words, usually containing a subject and a verb, expressing a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation, and, when written, starting with a capital letter and ending with a period or other mark: --
Your sentences are too long and complicated.
4 a punishment given by a law court to a person or organization that is guilty of a crime: --
5 to officially state the punishment given by a law court to a guilty person or organization: --
This is useful in situations where the actual position of a word within a sentence is significant.
In the event that they understood only part of a sentence, they were to write out as many words as they could identify.
However, since these effects were not consistent across ages, whether co-referencing complexity alone is driving sentence-processing speed is unclear.
The language is stilted, typical 'translatorese', so much so that some sentences are virtually incomprehensible.
Verbal working memory in sentence comprehension in children with specific language impairment.
The 'could' in the first sentence is worth noting but, passing quickly over this point, the 10 per cent figure seems arbitrary, at best.
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.
Likewise, the identical rater training scheme employed only 2 words and 2 sentences.
