We shall call sentences of the form (6I), even reshaped as (6IR), internal metafictional sentences, for they purport to say how things stand in, or according to, a certain fiction.
All the disparate measures add up to an attempt to halt what criminologist Rod Morgan has called "sentence inflation" that has raged unchecked since the early 1990s.
My students are, not illegitimately, making a grammatical transformation as well: turning the conjunctions into what are called "sentence adverbs" — words like "Presumably," "However" and, yes, "Hopefully" that are followed by commas when they start sentences.
Zero-place predicate letters are sometimes called "sentence letters".
The new keyboard feature, called Sentence Rephraser, draws on Ginger's NLP platform to rejig sentences to ensure they are grammatically correct, eschew errors and misused words, and use appropriate idioms and local expressions.
Juror slams judge in Stanford rape case, calls sentence 'a mockery' amid recall push.
He called sentences "containers of consciousness," and the consciousness he meant was not mine, or yours, or even the author's.
Overall, Peter is happy with his new role, and knows it was only possible through an unconventional prison work program called Sentenced To A Job.
To call a sentence true is just to assert or affirm the sentence (Ramsey 1927).
Let us call such sentences "atomic moral sentences".
