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The statements they constitute minimum units of meaningful expression and are generally composed of several words and eventually a sentence, although even a single word can constitute a statement. It is through statements that ideas are expressed or speech acts are consummated. For example: I ask you for the bill, please.
The statement is, then, the minimum unit of communication. These units are shaping the texts, which are larger communication units.
For a set of words to be considered a statement, it must have:
- Something to communicate.
- An intention.
- A code known to the receivers.
- A unit (its parts must be interrelated around a thematic nucleus).
- Certain limits (in written language they are marked by the capital initial and the period or, eventually, the question mark or exclamation mark, and in oral communication they are marked by pauses and intonation).
Statement and sentence
As can be seen, the limits of the statement, in general, coincide with that of sentences. However, statement and sentence are not equivalent terms. While a sentence is a theoretical grammatical construct, it might not make any sense. For example: Pockets spoke of raw fear, a statement is the concrete realization of a sentence that makes sense, emitted by a specific speaker in certain circumstances, that is, under a certain context.
This can be visualized very well if you think of ironic expressions: the context is what defines if something is said with a plain or ironic intention, even when the sentence that is pronounced is exactly the same: if we tell someone to enter the bank at 2:50 p.m. "You always wanting to be the first”It is clear that we are making an ironic statement, but if it is 9.45 am that statement will be perceived as plain. It should be noted that sentences can only be evaluated in formal terms, while sentences can be judged as true or false.
The utterance can be classified according to what kind of words constitutes its core. Thus we will speak of sentence statement when this nucleus is a noun, an adjective or an adverb, in which case we will call these nominal, adjectival and adverbial sentences, respectively. When the nucleus is a conjugated verb, we will speak of sentence sentences.
Types of statement
- Affirmative statements. They affirm something. For example: Tomorrow morning it's going to rain.
- Negative statements. They deny something. For example: They haven't paid me yet.
- Doubtful statements. They doubt something. For example: We may be in time to catch the train.
- Interrogative statements. They ask questions. For example: You have change?
- Exclamatory sentences. They exclaim something. For example: What a bad luck!
- Imperative statements. They order something. For example: Pay attention.
- Declarative statements. They declare something. For example: I'd rather not go to the party.
- Wishful statements. They want something. For example: I would love to be on vacation.
- See also: Declarative sentences
Examples of statements
- Please tidy up your room this afternoon.
- Every morning is the same.
- It may be true.
- Maybe that guy is right.
- Good afternoon.
- Can you use the cell phone in this work?
- I don't know any country in Europe.
- That beauty!
- Are you coming to see me tomorrow?
- Don't come back until you really regret it
- Tomorrow you come to see me!
- The lady on the fourth floor continues to complain about the noise from the neighbors.
- See you tomorrow.
- Forbidden to step on the grass
- What heat!
- I played all afternoon with my friends from school.
- It rains since the morning.
- I am very happy to meet you.
- Silence!
- How I would like to tell you everything I think ...
