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Sentence

It is a set of words with complete meaning and syntactic autonomy, this can become imprecise.

It is the smallest fragment of a speech that seeks to communicate a complete idea.

This means that even if we remove a sentence from the main speech or text, it is by itself capable of continuing to communicate an idea.

Sentences can be classified by their predicate in:

• Simple: These are sentences where there is a single action. It has a subject and a predicate.
• Compounds: These are sentences where the predicate has two or more actions. It is often said that a compound sentence is made up of one or more sentences.

Sentence

It is a union of words organized in such a way that they have a meaning even if they are not part of a sentence. These are sentences lacking a verb, their use is accepted but not recommended.

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Difference between Sentence and Phrase

• A sentence differs from a phrase by the presence of a verb in a personal way. A personal verb is one that admits a subject while an impersonal verb is used in the third person singular and used for natural phenomena.
• Sentences regardless of their length must have a verb in personal form. There are one-word sentences where this is a personal verb in the form of an infinitive or gerund.
• A sentence is a minimum expression with complete and independent meaning. A sentence does not make complete sense.
• A phrase is a set of words whose purpose is to transmit information, the words that constitute it are of a nominal type, that is, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, they do not have a verb as a nucleus on which they can depend.