TY - JOUR ID - TI - A Contrastive Study of Basic Sentence Patterns in English and Arabic AU - Nawar Hussein Rdhawi PY - 2010 VL - 1 IS - 3 SP - 265 EP - 276 JO - Journal Human Sciences مجلة العلوم الانسانية SN - 19922876 25239899 AB - A sentence is a complete unit of meaning. In speech, sentences may convey a meaning through intonation, gesture, facial expression, etc. Such devices are not available in written texts, so sentences have to be structured and punctuated. Whether spoken or written, certain sentences are irregular, i.e. not full sentences if they do not contain a finite verb:

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