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a sentence having only one clause, as I saw her the day before yesterday. Cf. complex sentence, compound-complex sentence, compound sentence.
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sentence — 1. Many users of this book will have been taught that a sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense, contains a main verb, and when written begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (or a question mark if it is a question… … Modern English usage
