Tuesday, 20 July 2010

the beauty of a sentence.


What is more beautiful than a sentence? Words seemingly at random, thrown together with letters and punctuation to create a body of meaning to someone. It is how we communicate, our very existence relies on the knowledge of how a sentence works, the games, the foreplay, sentences are cheeky. You have to have acquired social skills to know when to stop, to start or to interrupt. Manners are essential if you are to commit to a tentative conversation, or if you're feeling a little bit sneaky then why don't you speak pragmatically. In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language, often defined to indicate a grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that generally bear minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it. A sentence can include words grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, request or command. As with all language expressions, sentences may contain both function and content words, and contain properties distinct to natural language, such as characteristic intonation and timing patterns.

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