sentence structure

collocation in English

meanings of sentenceand structure

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sentence
noun[C]
uk /ˈsen.təns/ us /ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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structure
noun
uk /ˈstrʌk.tʃər/ us /ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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Examples of sentence structure

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The same is true of sentencestructure.
The sentencestructure, however, is that of the vernacular.
The other crucial factor was the sentencestructure.
The variety is less in the choice of individual words, more in sentencestructure.
The syntactic bootstrapping theory suggests that sentencestructure can inform verb learning.
This suggests that children are guided by sentencestructure to infer the meaning of a verb.
They have different word order constraints with regard to sentencestructure.
The translation programs do not analyse sentencestructure or keep track of parts of speech.
Perhaps the most widely attested factor favoring the zero relative is sentencestructure.
This is a condition that the feature structures constitute a sentencestructure.
Moreover, sentencestructure influences the use of relative markers in each variety to a greater or lesser degree.
Figure 1 is intended to show the linear development of a sentencestructure that is interrupted by an intervening string.
This inability to understand context also means that a computer cannot accurately check grammar and sentencestructure.
The text includes practical suggestions, self-evaluation exercises, as well as tips on style, sentencestructure, punctuation, and vocabulary.
The term "syntax" in generative grammars correlates to its use in natural language, where it determines valid sentencestructure.
In grammar, there are hundreds of constructions governing the patterns of word-formation (morphology), sentencestructure, and sentence sequence (syntax).
These messages exhibit a great deal of nonstandard variation in sentencestructure and lexical choice, as the following examples show.
Confirmation will have to await further research that systematically varies sentencestructure at the end of line break points.
Crucially, the reformulation of sentences required the use of a sentencestructure where the expletive subjects had to be absent.
Here, unlike subject relatives, sentencestructure does not condition the occurrence of the zero variant in every community.
Children are not explicitly taught sentencestructure.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Many key passages contain three levels of text: the basic sentencestructure, multiple parenthetical restatements of the main text's phrases, and end-notes.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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