"composite sentence" meaning in English

See composite sentence in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: composite sentences [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} composite sentence (plural composite sentences)
  1. (grammar) a sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); compound or complex sentence Categories (topical): Grammar Coordinate_terms: simple sentence [grammar, linguistics, human-sciences, sciences]
    Sense id: en-composite_sentence-en-noun-HnLbxZ5h Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

Download JSON data for composite sentence meaning in English (3.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "composite sentences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "composite sentence (plural composite sentences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "topics": [
            "grammar",
            "linguistics",
            "human-sciences",
            "sciences"
          ],
          "word": "simple sentence"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Hendrik Poutsma, A Grammar of Late Modern English, Part I: The Sentence, page 351",
          "text": "A composite sentence is the union of two or more sentences which from their contents, the way in which they are arranged or joined together, and the manner in whih they are uttered, form a whole. The relation between the different members of a composite sentence is that of: a) Co-ordination (parataxis), when they are of equal rank. […] b) Subordination (hypotaxis), when one memebr represents an element (subject, nominal part of the predicate, object, etc.) of the other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Boris Aleksandrovich Ilyish, Строй современного английского языка, second edition, page 189",
          "text": "When, however, we come to composite sentences (that is, sentences consisting of two or more clauses), we have to deal with the notions of main clause, head clause, and subordinate clause."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Ian Press, A Grammar of Modern Breton, second edition, page 204",
          "text": "The composite sentence, in its two forms compound and complex, is relatively straightforward, though rather different from the simple sentence."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Wang Li, translated by Bo Wang, Modern Chinese Grammar I: Syntax",
          "text": "Composite sentences can be categorized into two types: (1) coordinate sentence, in which the included sentence forms are of equal statuses and (2) subordinate sentence, in which the included sentence forms include major ones and subordinate ones.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); compound or complex sentence"
      ],
      "id": "en-composite_sentence-en-noun-HnLbxZ5h",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ],
        [
          "independent",
          "independent clause"
        ],
        [
          "coordinate",
          "coordinate"
        ],
        [
          "dependent",
          "dependent clause"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound sentence"
        ],
        [
          "complex sentence",
          "complex sentence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) a sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); compound or complex sentence"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "composite sentence"
}
{
  "coordinate_terms": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "linguistics",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "word": "simple sentence"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "composite sentences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "composite sentence (plural composite sentences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, Hendrik Poutsma, A Grammar of Late Modern English, Part I: The Sentence, page 351",
          "text": "A composite sentence is the union of two or more sentences which from their contents, the way in which they are arranged or joined together, and the manner in whih they are uttered, form a whole. The relation between the different members of a composite sentence is that of: a) Co-ordination (parataxis), when they are of equal rank. […] b) Subordination (hypotaxis), when one memebr represents an element (subject, nominal part of the predicate, object, etc.) of the other."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Boris Aleksandrovich Ilyish, Строй современного английского языка, second edition, page 189",
          "text": "When, however, we come to composite sentences (that is, sentences consisting of two or more clauses), we have to deal with the notions of main clause, head clause, and subordinate clause."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986, Ian Press, A Grammar of Modern Breton, second edition, page 204",
          "text": "The composite sentence, in its two forms compound and complex, is relatively straightforward, though rather different from the simple sentence."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Wang Li, translated by Bo Wang, Modern Chinese Grammar I: Syntax",
          "text": "Composite sentences can be categorized into two types: (1) coordinate sentence, in which the included sentence forms are of equal statuses and (2) subordinate sentence, in which the included sentence forms include major ones and subordinate ones.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); compound or complex sentence"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ],
        [
          "independent",
          "independent clause"
        ],
        [
          "coordinate",
          "coordinate"
        ],
        [
          "dependent",
          "dependent clause"
        ],
        [
          "subordinate",
          "subordinate"
        ],
        [
          "compound",
          "compound sentence"
        ],
        [
          "complex sentence",
          "complex sentence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) a sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); compound or complex sentence"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "composite sentence"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.