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Let an agent analyse and improve sentences, explain sentence types and structure, support writing and language learning, and separate the legal sense of sentence.
Research draft, second pass
A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.
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Researched by: Claude
Purpose and description
Let an agent analyse and improve sentences, explain sentence types and structure, support writing and language learning, and separate the legal sense of sentence.
A grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that expresses a complete thought, typically containing a subject and predicate, classified by function as declarative, interrogative, imperative or exclamatory and by structure as simple, compound or complex; sentences are the basic units of written text and are studied in grammar, linguistics and language teaching.
What it is for: Writing, grammar and language learning.
It can be identify sentence types and structure; diagnose fragments and run-ons; improve clarity and variety; separate the legal sense.
Distinguishing features
Complete thought
Subject and predicate
Functional and structural types
Language-specific rules
What it looks like
Not physical; strings of words with punctuation.
How it is recognised
Capital letter and end punctuation in writing
Subject and predicate
A phrase lacks a complete thought
Related models
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is related to - text measurement
In practice
Families and kinds
declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory sentences
simple, compound and complex sentences
incomplete sentences and fragments
causative and other specialised constructions
sentences in language teaching such as writing prompts
Standards and regulation
Style guides and grammar references
Plain language standards
Failure modes and hazards
Fragments and run-ons
Ambiguity
Confusing with the legal sense
Also called
+17
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Analyse Sentence structure.
Types and parts.
Type
Sentence type.
Type
Type.
- What type of sentence is this by function and structure? definition
- What are its subject, predicate and clauses? definition
Complete
Complete or fragment.
Complete
Completeness.
- Is this a complete sentence, a fragment or a run-on? boundary
- When are fragments acceptable stylistically? boundary
Improve Better sentences.
Clarity and variety.
Clarity
Clear sentences.
Clarity
Clarity.
- How can this sentence be made clearer and more concise? action
- Is it ambiguous? boundary
Variety
Sentence variety.
Variety
Variety.
- How can sentence length and structure be varied in this text? action
- Which patterns are overused? measurement
Learn Teaching and learning.
Language learning.
Teach
Teaching sentences.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can sentence structure be taught to this level of learner? action
- Which writing prompts help? action
Languages
Other languages.
Languages
Other languages.
- How do sentence structure and word order work in this language? provenance
- Which errors do learners make? provenance
Senses Disambiguation.
Sentence has a legal sense.
Legal
Legal sentence.
Legal
Legal sense.
- Is a court sentence meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Linguistics
Theoretical views.
Linguistics
Theory.
- How do linguists define the sentence, and how does it differ from an utterance? provenance
- Which theories are contested? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should sentence types be separate entries?
- How should grammar references be linked?
- How should language-specific rules be recorded?