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SIMPLE SENTENCE
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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1998
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SIMPLE SENTENCE. A
SENTENCE that consists of one main clause and does not contain a coordinate clause or a subordinate clause:
The storm blew down several of my trees.
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Sentence and solas in the writer's craft of The Canterbury Tales and The Peony Pavilion.
Magazine article from: East-West Connections; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...importance of Chaucer's criteria of sentence and solas set out in The Canterbury Tales...reading of The Peony Pavilion in terms of sentence and solas, but I do not claim that Tang...work that had, within its own culture, sentence and solas in comparable ways to that...
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Sentence innovation sees launch of Intermittent Custody.
M2 Presswire; 1/26/2004; 700+ words
; ...intermittently. For consecutive sentences in a magistrates' court, the maximum overall sentence will be 52 weeks, within...may impose an overall sentence of up to 51 weeks...days. For consecutive sentences, the Crown Court may impose an overall sentence up to a maximum of 65...
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Sentence cuts labelled 'insult'
Newspaper article from: The Press; 8/8/2003; 700+ words
; ...decision to reduce the sentences of RSA murderer William...applauded the hefty sentences dished out on conviction...yesterday had his sentence reduced from 28 years...t surprised (at the sentence reductions) -- we...comfort zone to give those sentences, just to have them...
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Sentence for Australian gang rapist shocks family and lawyers
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a 20-year sentence was sufficient if 40-year sentences are being handed...problem with this sentence whatsoever...toughening of sentences. Premier Bob...the sort of sentence the community...wants tough sentences in cases of...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Staggered sentences: Wise or wimpy option? Some Minnesota judges are trying a new punishment with drunken drivers that means they will spend more time in the law's spotlight but less time in jail.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...traditional sentence. Proponents...that staggered sentences work better...a staggered sentence has been used in a felony. The sentences are typically...part of the sentence. If they falter...given staggered sentences in the past...
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Cocaine Sentences Get High Court Review
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/2/2007; 700+ words
; ...to criminal sentences center on a...impose a shorter sentence than is called...the minimum sentences. Arguing for the longer sentence - 19 to 22 years...mandatory minimum sentences. Kimbrough...just such a sentence, Nachmanoff...
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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NSW: Sentences for manslaughter getting longer, study shows
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 1/27/2004; 588 words
; ...judges are handing down harsher sentences for manslaughter. The NSW Judicial Commission examined the sentences given to 216 convicted murderers...1990-1993, the median head sentence for manslaughter had increased...seven years while median head sentences for murder remained consistent...
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Improving Sentence Writing Ability Through Sentence-Combining Practice
Magazine article from: Teaching Exceptional Children; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...this supplemental sentence-level instruction...better, more varied sentences that might also...combining and how sentence-combining practice...more interesting sentences that convey their...syntactically complex sentences that better reflect...they want to say. Sentence-combining ...
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Sentence to fit the crime
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 10/12/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Colin Boyd, QC, viewed the sentence as unduly lenient, so took...softly and imposed a life sentence with a minimum of ten years...anyone. Discretionary life sentences, as opposed to the mandatory sentence for murder, are usually...
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 "Instructor (1990)")
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Combining sentences for flow and clarity. (activities to improve students' writing skills)
Magazine article from: Instructor (1990); 9/1/1997; 700+ words
; ...turn two simple sentences into one interesting compound sentence by using conjunctions...combine two short sentences to create a longer...more interesting sentence with the help...to combine the sentences. Encourage them to move sentence parts around...
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SENTENCE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...perhaps not sentences at all. The orthographic sentence In written language...definition of a sentence. They assume...can recognize sentences, implicitly relying...all and only the sentences of the language. Sentence structures If...
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Determinate Sentence
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...sentences, and enhanced sentences for certain crimes...when determining a sentence, whereas mandatory...receive lighter sentences than do nonviolent...type of determinate sentence that has been popular...other states enhance sentences for repeat offenders...It held that the ...
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Suspended Sentence
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...implementation of the sentence. There are two types of suspended sentences. A judge may unconditionally...unconditionally suspended sentence ends the court system...postponement of a criminal sentence means that the judge...conditionally suspended sentences to encourage convicted...
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Accumulative Sentence
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
...Another name for accumulative sentence is cumulative or consecutive sentence. The opposite of an accumulative sentence is a concurrent sentence — two or more prison sentences that are to be served simultaneously, so that the prisoner is...
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Statistics: Death Sentences, Capital Case Costs, And Executions
Book article from: Capital Punishment: Cruel and Unusual?
STATISTICS: DEATH SENTENCES, CAPITAL CASE COSTS...prisoners were held under the sentence of death in federal and...any inmates under the sentence of death. The thirteen...number of people under the sentence of death between 1955...
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