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sentence
Noun
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In grammar, a sentence is a group of words that follow normal grammar rules, and that, in writing, begins with a capital letter and ends with a period '.', question mark '?', or exclamation mark '!'. Usually a sentence has a subject, verb, and object.
The first sentence in the Jewish holy book is, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
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In law, a sentence is the punishment that a judge gives to a criminal.
He received a 15-year sentence for the murder of his friend.
sentence
Verb
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If a judge sentences someone, they decide on a punishment for a crime.
He was sentenced to 15 years in jail for the murder of his friend.
grammar
Noun
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Grammar is the rules about how to speak and write well in a language. Grammar includes syntax (what order to put words in), morphology (how to make different forms of a word) and conjugation (what form of a word to use).