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Jespersen's Definition of a Sentence: "Traditional attempts to define the sentence
were generally either psychological or logical-analytic in nature: the former type
spoke of 'a complete thought' or some other inaccessible psychological
phenomenon; the latter type, following Aristotle, expected to find every sentence
made up of a logical subject and logical predicate, units that themselves rely on the
sentence for their definition. A more fruitful approach is that of Otto Jespersen,
who suggests testing the completeness and independence of a sentence, by
assessing its potential for standing alone, as a complete utterance."

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According to B.A.Ilyish“The sentence is the immediate integral unit of speech

built up of words according to a definite syntacticpattern and distinguished by a
contextually relevant communicative purpose”. The definition proves that is quite
right when he writes: “Thenotion of thesentence has not so far received a
satisfactory definition”.
“A sentence is a unit of speech whose grammatical structure conforms to the laws
of the language andwhich serves as the chief means of conveying a thought. A
sentence is not only a means of communicatingsomething about reality but also a
means of showing the speaker's attitude to it.
The train moved out of the city. 
Are you ready? 
Put down the book. 
Thus, concluding the above mentioned conceptions, there can be said that in any
act ofcommunication there are three factors:
1. The act of speech;
2. The speaker;
3. Reality (as viewed by the speaker).
B. Khaimovich and Rogovskaya state that these factors are variable since they
change with every actof speech. They may be viewed from two viewpoints:
1) From the point of view of language are constant because they are found in all
acts ofcommunication;
2) They are variable because they change in every act of speech.
Every act of communication contains the notions of time, person, and reality.
The events mentioned in the communications are correlated in time and time
correlation isexpressed by certain grammatical and lexical means.
Any act of communication presupposes theexistence of the speaker and the hearer.
Themeaning of person is expressed by the category of theperson of verbs.
They may be expressedgrammatically and lexico-grammatically by words: I, you,
he...
Reality is treated differently by the speaker and this attitude of the speaker is
expressed bythe category of mood in verbs. They may be expressed grammatically
and lexically (may, must,probably...)
According to the same authors the three relations - to the act of speech, to the
speaker andto reality - can be summarized as the relation to the situation of speech.
The relation of the thought of a sentence to the situation of speech is called
predicativity.
Predicativity is the structural meaning of the sentence while intonation is the
structural form of it.Thus, a sentence is a communication unit made up of words
/and word-morphemes/ in conformitywith their combinability and structurally
united by intonation and predicativity.
Within a sentence, the word or combination of words that contain the meanings
ofpredicativity may be called the predication.
My father used to make nets and sell them. 
My mother kept a little day-school for the girls. 
Nobody wants a baby to cry. 
A hospital Nursery is one of the most beautiful places in the world. 

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You might say, it’s aroom filled with love. 
According to academician G.Pocheptsov, the sentence is the central syntactic
construction used as the minimal communicative unit that has its primary
predication, actualizes a definite structural scheme and possesses definite
intonation characteristics. This definition works only in case we do not take into
account the difference between the sentence and the utterance. The distinction
between the sentence and the utterance is of fundamental importance because the
sentence is an abstract theoretical entity defined within the theory of grammar
while the utterance is the actual use of the sentence. In other words, a sentence is a
unit of language while the utterance is a unit of speech.
The most essential features of the sentence as a linguistic unit are a) its structural
characteristics – subject-predicate relations (primary predication), and b) its
semantic characteristics – it refers to some fact in the objective reality.
Thus, by sentence, we understand the smallest communicative unit, consisting of
one ormore syntactically connected words that have primary predication and that
have a certain intonationpattern.
There are many approaches to classify sentences. Below we shall consider only
some ofthem.
B. Ilyish classifies sentences applying two principles:
1) Types of communication. Applying this principle he distinguishes 3 types of
sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative.
2) According to thestructure. Applying this principle he distinguishes two main
types ofsentences: simple and composite.