My father used to make nets and sell them. My mother kept a little day-school for the girls. Nobody wants a baby to cry. A hospital Nursery is one of the most beautiful places in the world You might say, it's aroom filled with love. According to academician G.Pocheptsov,the
sentence is the central syntactic construction used as
the minimal communicative unit that has its primary
predication, actualizes a definite structural scheme
and possesses definite intonation characteristics. This
definition works only in case we do not take into
account the difference between the sentence and the
Utterance. The distinction between the sentence and
the utterance is of fundamental importance because
the sentence is an abstract theoretical entity defined
within the theory of grammar while the utterance is the actual use of the sentence.
In other words, a sentence is a unit of language while the utterance is a unit of
speech.
The most essential features of the sentence as a linguistic unit are a)
its structural characteristics - subject-predicate relations (primary predication), and
b) its semantic characteristics - it. refers to some fact in the objective reality.
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Thus, by sentence, we understand the smallest communicative unit,
consisting of one ormore syntactically connected words that have primary
predication and that have a certain intonationpattem.
There are many approaches to classify sentences. Below we shall consider
only some ofthem.
B. Ilyish classifies sentences applying two principles:
Types of communication. Applying this principle he distinguishes 3 types
of.sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative.
According to thestructure. Applying this principle he distinguishes two
main types ofsentences: simple and composite.
Ch. Fries gives an original classification of types of sentences. All the
utterances are divided by him into Communicative and Non-communicative.
The Communicative utterances are in their turn divided into 3 groups:
Utterances regularly eliciting “oral” responses only:
greetings, calls, questions.
Utterances regularly eliciting "action" responses, sometimes accompanied
by one of alimited list of oral responses: requests or commands.
Utterances regularly eliciting conventional signals of attention to
continuous discoursestatements.
L.Barkhudarov compares source (kernel)
sentences with their transforms, he distinguishes
several types of sentences from their structural
view-point. His classification willrepresent binary
oppositions where the unmarked member is the
source kernel sentence andmarked one is the
transformed sentence.
The most important oppositions within the
limits of simple sentences are the followingtwo:
Imperative (request) and non-imperative
sentences.
Elliptical and non-elliptical sentences.
Summarizing the issue about the classification of sentences in the English
language, weean say that this can be done from different points of view. But the
most important criteria so areas follows:
The criterion of the structure ofsentences.
The criterion of the aim of the speaker.
The criterion of the existence of all parts of the sentence.