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We could describe to sentences as the most basic structures of the language, being the grammar the area of ​​the linguistics that is dedicated to analyzing them in their components and parts more than in their meaning. Sentences can be very simple (consisting of a single word) or very complex (in which case they can tell with numerous words or complex ways of intertwining between them). One of the features main of the grammatical sentence is that it is always a statement, which implies that it always has a particular meaning.

Sentences, from the syntactic point of view, always have divisible segments, mostly but not exclusively, in subject and predicate. These segments can be independent or subordinate according to the type of sentence that is established and this characteristic will be given by the presence or absence of syntactic elements of union, especially adverbs. Within this basic structure, sentences can then vary in complexity and thus we will find from simple sentences to much more complex and long sentences in which the union of several segments is present.

There are different classifications for the notion of sentence. In this sense, we have simple sentences (those that do not have dependent segments, such as 'My name is Esteban'), compound sentences (those that do have dependent segments, separated by adverbs or punctuation marks, for example 'I live in Spain because I like it'), sentences complex (composed of one or more segments with at least one dependent segment) and complex compound sentences (with multiple independent segments and dependents).

On the other hand, sentences can also be classified according to their communicative purpose or meaning. In this sense, we have declarative, negative, interrogative, exclamatory and imperative sentences, each of them with a different meaning and reason according to how they are used in each situation.