Mastering the Art of Sentences

The Definition and Features of Sentences in Communication

• There are various definitions of sentences, depending on the viewpoint of the scientists.
• The definition of a sentence should contain all the peculiar features of the smallest communicative unit.
• A sentence is a unit of speech built up of words according to a definite syntactic pattern and distinguished by a contextually relevant communicative purpose.
• The notion of sentence has not yet received a satisfactory definition.
• A sentence is a means of communicating something about reality and the speaker's attitude towards it.
• Sentences express relatively complete thoughts and are used as units of communication between people.
• To convey a complete and finished message, it is necessary to express how the fact, phenomenon, or event relates to reality and to express the modality of the message.
• Modality is present in every sentence, and it expresses the speaker's attitude towards the fact, phenomenon, or event.
• The intonation is a crucial grammatical means of forming a sentence.
• In any act of communication, there are three factors: the act of speech, the speaker, and reality as viewed by the speaker.
• The factors of communication are variable because they change in every act of speech, but they are constant because they are found in all acts of communication.
• Any act of communication presupposes the existence of the speaker and the hearer, and the meaning of person is expressed by the category of person of verbs and by words such as I, you, he, etc.