A short sentence; a single passage or member of a discourse or writing; a distinct part or member of a sentence, esp. in Grammar, one containing a…

Specific uses. Grammar, as compound sentence (see sentence, n. 6a); compound verb (see quot. 1925). Cf. quot. 1859 at sense 2b for sense 1a.

esp. a sentence containing one or more subordinate clauses, as ‘I assured him that (the man [whom he sought] was not here)’.

A thing that runs on; spec. a sentence, piece of text, etc., that carries on from one line to the next without any break.

Linguistics. In full kernel sentence. In an early version of transformational grammar: a relatively simple sentence that results from the application…

Linguistics. In transformational grammar: = simplex sentence n. at compounds 2. Now rare.

(in transformational grammar) a sentence in which subordinate sentences may be embedded.