Two structures M and N of the same signature σ are elementarily equivalent if every first-order sentence ( formula without free variables ) over σ is true in M if and only if it is true in N, i. e. if M and N have the same complete first-order theory.

A class K of structures of a signature σ is called an elementary class if there is a first-order theory T of signature σ, such that K consists of all models of T, i. e., of all σ-structures that satisfy T. If T can be chosen as a theory consisting of a single first-order sentence, then K is called a basic elementary class.

Since attack serves to stimulate interest in broadcasts, I added to my opening statement a sentence in which I claimed that German youth seemed to lack the enthusiasm which is a necessary ingredient of anger, and might be classified as uninterested and bored rather than angry.

the athlete of by-gone years who wears a size 46 suit and puffs when he has finished a sentence of any length then, it is time to break it up and move on.

But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to compress in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual, as a legislator, as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator, to the majestic progress of this Nation.

In the second sentence if drinking water is a gerundial clause and without drinking water is roughly equivalent in meaning to unless I drink water, there will be stronger stress on water than on drinking ; ;

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

The jail sentence is to begin the day after Sarkees graduates from Eastern High School in June.

If the petition is granted the appellant could be released from incarceration, the sentence could be modified, or a new trial could be ordered.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Allocution is sometimes required of a defendant who pleads guilty to a crime in a plea bargain in exchange for a reduced sentence.

In most United States jurisdictions a defendant is allowed the opportunity to allocute — that is, explain himself — before sentence is passed.

In his spare time, Grand polishes up his Latin, and he is also writing a book, but he is such a perfectionist that he continually rewrites the first sentence and can get no further.

This is because they were only carrying out the sentence of death that he would have faced had he not been acquitted on a technicality.

It is in the Boethius that the oft-quoted sentence occurs: " My will was to live worthily as long as I lived, and after my life to leave to them that should come after, my memory in good works.

The primary purpose of this text is to refine the literary concept dhvani or poetic suggestion, by arguing for the existence of rasa-dhvani, primarily in forms of Sanskrit including a word, sentence or whole work " suggests " a real-world emotional state or bhāva, but thanks to aesthetic distance, the sensitive spectator relishes the rasa, the aesthetic flavor of tragedy, heroism or romance.

The next sentence is often translated " Crantor adds, that this is testified by the prophets of the Egyptians, who assert that these particulars are narrated by Plato are written on pillars which are still preserved.

" But in the original, the sentence starts not with the name Crantor but with the ambiguous He, and whether this referred to Crantor or to Plato is the subject of considerable debate.

In the sentence I see the car, the noun phrase the car is the direct object of the verb " see ".

One can correctly use " the car " as the subject of a sentence also: " The car is parked here.

This is the form in the nominative case, used for the subject of a sentence.

... review, on the other hand, provide an independent and civil inquiry into the validity of a conviction and sentence, and as such are generally limited to challenges to constitutional, jurisdictional, or other fundamental violations that occurred at trial.

Often, media outlets covering a match will personally score the match, and post their scores as an independent sentence in their report.

* Compound sentence ( linguistics ), a type of sentence made up of two or more independent clauses and no subordinate ( dependent ) clauses

Furthermore, the first sentence of article 3 explicitly states that " The political existence of the state is independent of recognition by the other states.

However, in American English, many writers capitalize the word following a colon if it begins an independent clause, i. e. a clause which could stand as a complete sentence.

A simple sentence usually consists of a single finite clause with a finite verb that is independent.

Main clauses (= matrix clauses, independent clauses ) are those that could stand as a sentence by themselves.

Some run-on sentence definitions include comma splices, but others limit the term to independent clauses that are joined without punctuation, thereby excluding comma splices.

-- In this sentence, Wiesel uses two parallel independent clauses written in the passive voice.

A finite verb is a form of a verb that has a subject and can function as the root of an independent clause ; an independent clause can, in turn, stand alone as a complete sentence.

A sentence with that form is true independent of the interpretation of " man " and " married ", so long as the logical particles " no ", " un -" and " is " have their ordinary English meaning.

An independent clause demonstrates a complete thought ; it is a complete sentence: for example, I am sad.

* A simple sentence consists of a single independent clause with no dependent clauses.

* A compound sentence consists of multiple independent clauses with no dependent clauses.

* A complex sentence consists of at least one independent clause and one dependent clause.

* A complex-compound sentence ( or compound-complex sentence ) consists of multiple independent clauses, at least one of which has at least one dependent clause.

A compound sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses.

In linguistics, a dependent clause ( sometimes called a subordinate clause ) is a clause that augments an independent clause with additional information, but which cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Dependent clauses modify the independent clause of a sentence or serve as a component of it.

For example, When he was in New York is not a complete sentence ; it needs to be completed by an independent clause.

A sentence with an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses is referred to as a complex sentence.