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terrogative, negative.
a. House Republicans have a new leader.
b. Can I borrow your mulcher?
c. Call us at 555-3232.
d. Heroic leadership is not required.
e. Children from Jamaica have been barred from the National Spelling
Bee.
f. Jody-Anne was the first Jamaican winner.
g. Buy more, save more.
h. Was the case made well enough by House managers for a convic-
tion?
i. Area hospitals have been warned of mislabeled drugs.
sentences.
In written English and other familiar languages, sentences are quite easy to
recognize: they typically begin with a capital letter and end with a period or its
equivalent. From a linguistic point of view, sentences are the largest grammati-
cal units. They are also intuitively complete in two senses: first, they may stand
alone as informative units, and second, and more importantly, they include all
required grammatical elements. This paragraph is composed of sentences, and
each of the following is a sentence:
Cats purr.
Tigers eat meat.
Some birds cannot fly.
Journalists think that they do important work.
Bill Gates is fighting for the rights of all capitalists.
If wishes were cars, Iād drive a Ferrari.
Language learners and beginning writers commonly leave out parts of
sentences, creating fragments, like:
Cats.
Meat.
Fly.
That they do important work.
For the rights of all capitalists.
If wishes were cars.