Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27

I'm sorry, I made a mistake. "Sentence" is the wrong concept. In Portuguese,
we call it _oração_, which is a statement that expresses an action, a
characteristic of something, a state, a continuity of state or a change of
state. I don't know what it is called in English.

Let me try to rephrase it: Whenever a verb is present, it is the most
important part of the sentence.

João Ricardo Oliveira

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From: "Peter Clark" <peter-clark@...>
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Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: Results of Poll by Email No. 27


On Sunday 06 April 2003 08:34 pm, João Ricardo Oliveira wrote:
> The verb is the most important part of the sentence. You can have a
> sentence without an object and even without a subject, but never without a
> verb.
        - Who wants ice cream?
        - Me!

        Never say never. :)
        :Peter
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Oh what a tangled web they weave who try a new word to conceive!

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