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Exercise 1.
Read the statements. Circle the true or false definition of 
“sentence”. 
1. The sentence is the basic unit of syntax.
True / False 
2. Sentence is different from other language units because it is a unit of 
speech.
True / False 
3. The sentence is central syntactic construction used as the minimal 
communicative unit that has its primary predication, which is actualized by 
definite structural scheme and intonation characteristics.
True / False 
4. A sentence is a unit of speech whose grammatical structure conforms to the 
laws of the language and which serves as the chief means of conveying a 
thought. True / False 

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5. A sentence is only a means of communicating something about reality and 
also a means of showing the speaker's attitude to it. 
True / False 
6. A sentence does not express a complete thought. 
True / False 
Exercise 2.
Read the given main criteria about the classification of sentences. 
Classify and write types of sentences according to these criteria in the table. 
The criterion of the 
structure of sentences 
The criterion of the aim 
of the speaker 
The criterion of the 
existence of all parts of 
the sentence 
Exercise 3.
Fill the table with examples of thenegative form of adeclarative 
sentence of compared languages. Analyze similarities and differences between 
them. 
Means 
English 
Russian 
Uzbek 
1. Grammatical 
morpheme
do+not 
I don’t go 
 
не 
Я не пойду 
-ма 
Мен бормайман 
2. Lexical units
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Negative 
pronouns 
and 
adverbs 
 
 
4. Phraseological 
units 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Rhetoric 
questions
 
 
 
 
 
 

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