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CK CK June 12, 2010, edited October 25, 2019 June 12, 2010 at 4:39:35 PM UTC, edited October 25, 2019 at 8:09:35 AM UTC link Permalink

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TRANG TRANG June 13, 2010 June 13, 2010 at 12:40:45 AM UTC link Permalink

Well, the definition of "sentence" is still not exactly clear, to me at least. I mean, sometimes a "sentence" can be just a word... Like "Hello".

One thing is sure: you should avoid adding something that is clearly a partially formed sentences. Instead of "to be in love", you should add "He is in love" (for instance).

But in general, we are not very strict on the matter of what is accepted or not because we haven't decided yet what is a sentence.

We have only decided that a sentence has punctuation :)

The other problem is that I actually wouldn't even what word to use instead of "sentence"...

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blay_paul blay_paul June 13, 2010 June 13, 2010 at 6:24:04 AM UTC link Permalink

> The other problem is that I actually wouldn't even
> what word to use instead of "sentence"...

I think 'sentence' is a useful approximation - especially if you take off your grammatician hat. ;-)