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How would you define and explain the terms like Clause and Sentence in English?

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Question added by Vinay Kumar Mancherla , Associate professor , Gnyana Saraswati College of Engineering & Technology
Date Posted: 2015/03/04
Ephraim Dennis
by Ephraim Dennis , Principal , St. Dennis School

  1. In grammar, a clause is the smallest grammatical unit that can express a complete proposition. A typical clause consists of a subject and a predicate, where the predicate is typically a verb phrase – a verb together with any objects and other modifiers.

 

 

  1. sentence is a linguistic unit consisting of one or more words that are grammatically linked. Asentence can include words grouped meaningfully to express a statement, question, exclamation, request, command or suggestion.

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