Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

Key points for discussion: 
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Definition of thesentence. 
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Criteria of dividing sentences into types.
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Classification of sentences
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Typology of English, Russian and Uzbek sentence types.
 

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themselves rely on the sentence for their definition. A more fruitful approach is 
that of Otto Jespersen (1924: 307), who suggests testing the completeness and 
independence of a sentence, by assessing its 
potential 
for 
standing 
alone, 
as 
a 
complete utterance." 
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. 

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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.
You might say, it’s aroom filled with love. 
According to academician