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Definitions
- 1. sentence
- 2. clause
- 3. phrase
- 4. classifier for phrases or lines of verse
Example Sentences
1 shown這 句 不對。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 句
to talk shop all the time (idiom)
words and sentences
subject-predicate sentence
object relative clause
pearl of wisdom; quotable quote
poetic form consisting of four lines of five syllables, with rhymes on first, second and fourth line
clause
number of sentences
start of phrase or sentence
Jurong, county-level city in Zhenjiang 鎮江|镇江[zhèn jiāng], Jiangsu
center-embedded relative clauses
haiku
weighing every word
sentence
to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing
true negative (TN)
punctuation of a sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)
famous saying
Goguryeo (37 BC-668 AD), one of the Korean Three Kingdoms
question (grammar)
active conjoined sentence
musical phrase
true affirmative (TA)
pausing at the end of a phrase or sentence (in former times, before punctuation marks were used)
syntactic analysis
words
imperative sentence
conditional clause
incorrect break in reading Chinese, dividing text into clauses at wrong point
(say) a few words
verse
clause (grammar)
false affirmative
to polish a phrase
literal; word for word
discourse
pre-Han name of Liao River 遼河|辽河[liáo hé]
aphorism
couplet
to speak honestly (idiom)
declarative sentence
sentence-making
in a word
(linguistics) inverted sentence
wh-question (linguistics)
clause (grammar)
quatrain (poetic form)
full stop
syntax
affirmative sentence
rhetorical question
syntactic awareness
sentence pattern
to search for the right word (of poet)
defective sentence
imperative sentence
sentence pattern (in grammar)
one-word sentence
to speak one minute and be quiet the next
when views are irreconcilable, it's a waste of breath to continue discussion (idiom)
to measure one's words
example sentence
a line of verse
quotation
lit. lock the door and search for the right word (idiom); fig. the serious hard work of writing
exclamation
in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
clause
simple sentence (grammar)
negative sentence
period (punctuation)
compound phrase
sentence
Jurong, county-level city in Zhenjiang 鎮江|镇江[zhèn jiāng], Jiangsu
in other words