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 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.
Exercise#3. Fill the table with examples of thenegative form of adeclarative sentence of compared languages. Analyze similarities and differences between them.