Referential Meaning Meaning Equivalence and Sentence Realization Variations

iv. Compound-Complex Sentences A compound-complex sentence is a sentence that consists of multiple independent clauses, at least one of which has at least one dependent clause. Example: My best friend who is a singer named Nancy is beautiful, but she is still single until now. b The Classification by the Purpose or Form Classifications of sentence by purpose or form are: i. Declarative Sentences Declarative sentence or declaration sentence functions to make or to declare a statement. Example: I am not hungry. ii. Interrogative Sentences Interrogative sentence or question sentence functions to request information. Example: Where is the bus station? iii. Exclamatory Sentences Exclamatory sentence is generally more emphatic from statement of emotions expressions. Example: What a beautiful art you made. iv. Imperative Sentences Imperative sentence or command sentence is functions used to make demand or request. Example: Turn off the light please c The Classification by the Completeness of the Subject-Predicate Elements i. Complete Sentences A complete sentence is a regular sentence, it has a subject and a predicate. Example: I have a new fan. In this sentence one can change the persons into: We have a new fan. ii. Incomplete Sentences An incomplete sentence is an irregular type of sentence. It does not contain a main clause or follows the grammatical rules. Example: - Mary - Precisely so. - Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark. - Headings e.g. the heading of this entry - Stereotyped expressions “Hello” - Emotional expressions “Wow” - Proverbs - Abbreviation form - Words and phrases use as exclamations, questions or commands: Nice day Taxi? No entry. In addition to those categories of sentences, Bloomfield also offers other sentence categories, namely fully expressed sentences major sentences and partly expressed sentences minor sentences. Fully expressed sentences are also called major sentences and usually have the complete subject - predicate construction, begin with a capital letter and end with a full-stop, exclamation or question mark. As for partly expressed sentences or minor sentences, these sentences can be called elliptical sentences because some parts of their structure are omitted. 2 Types of Sentence Realization