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Phrases 33
- death sentencesplural of death sentence: A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
- prison sentencesplural of prison sentence: Confinement in prison as punishment for a crime.
- compound sentencesplural of compound sentence: A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses, joined by a conjunction (such as 'but', 'and') or punctuation (such as ',').
- incomplete sentencesplural of incomplete sentence: A group of words that appear to convey only part of a complete thought, lacking some component which is grammatically necessary to complete the thought.
- life sentencesplural of life sentence: A sentence of imprisonment for the remainder of the defendant's life.
- mandatory sentencesplural of mandatory sentence: A criminal sentence of a predetermined minimum period of time which a judge is required by statute to impose upon a conviction for a crime.
- suspended sentencesplural of suspended sentence: A sentence which the offender serves in probation unless he/she commits another crime during the period the sentence is in force.
- topic sentencesplural of topic sentence: A sentence at the beginning of a paragraph indicating the general matter to be discussed later in that paragraph.
- conditional sentencesplural of conditional sentence: A sentence discussing factual implications or hypothetical situations and their consequences. A full conditional sentence contains two clauses: the condition or protasis, and the consequence or apodosis.
- donkey sentencesplural of donkey sentence: A sentence that contains a pronoun with clear meaning (bound semantically) but whose syntactic role poses a challenge.
- Ramsey sentencesplural of Ramsey sentence: A formal logical reconstruction of a theoretical proposition, attempting to draw a line between science and metaphysics by replacing non-observable theoretical terms with observational terms.
- garden path sentencesplural of garden path sentence: A sentence that is easily parsed incorrectly when first read, due to the ambiguity of a word or words.
- run-on sentencesplural of run-on sentence: A written sentence that inappropriately joins two (or more) independent clauses into a single sentence, often with only a comma as separator (comma splice), which should be rendered either as separate sentences …
- circle sentencesplural of circle sentence: A criminal sentence determined by the circle sentencing process.
- complex sentencesplural of complex sentence: A sentence that contains an independent clause as well as one or more dependent clauses, such as a relative clause, an adverbial clause, or a noun clause.
- composite sentencesplural of composite sentence: A sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); a compound or complex sentence.
- jail sentencesplural of jail sentence: Confinement in prison as punishment for a crime.
- kernel sentencesplural of kernel sentence: A simple sentence with a subject, an active verb, and possibly an object, but without further modifications such as adjectives or subclauses.
- minor sentencesplural of minor sentence: An irregular type of sentence that lacks a main clause, such as "Precisely so" or "Next Tuesday evening".
- number sentencesplural of number sentence: An equation or inequality expressed with numbers and operators, such as 3 + 6 < 10.
- periodic sentencesplural of periodic sentence: A sentence whose main clause appears at its end.
- pro-sentencesplural of pro-sentence: A function word or expression that substitutes for a whole sentence whose content is recoverable from the context.
- re-sentencesthird-person singular simple present indicative of re-sentence: To issue a new sentence for certain crimes
- simple sentencesplural of simple sentence: A sentence that contains one independent clause and no dependent clause.
- Concord sentencesplural of Concord sentence: An atypically long sentence with an early parole eligibility, the time of parole eligibility constituting the "real" intended sentence.
Compound words 8
- foresentencesplural of foresentence: A sentence or condemnation in advance.
- hypersentencesplural of hypersentence: An implicit sentence containing an explicit sentence.
- nonsentencesplural of nonsentence: An utterance that is not a sentence.
- oversentencesthird-person singular simple present indicative of oversentence: To issue a sentence that is harsher than necessary.
- presentencesplural of presentence: Occurring before or in preparation for a criminal sentence.
- prosentencesplural of prosentence: A function word or expression that substitutes for a whole sentence whose content is recoverable from the context.
- pseudosentencesplural of pseudosentence: A grammatically-correct sentence that has no inherent meaning
- subsentencesplural of subsentence: A sentence making up part of a larger sentence.