Hello —I can't hear you—you'll have to talk louder—you don't know the noise they is in this house. Dozens of poor devils sitting around nursing their misery and afraid to say hello to another human being.
The man approached the cabin, but stopped some distance away and called, " Hello , ol' man! Within twenty feet, she was looking into that gray face, when the set lips of it opened in a loud command: " Hello! She asked me if I'd just arrived and I was like "Hello, I've been here for an hour. Hello, this is very strange - I know that man.
Cathy poked her head round the door to say hello. When he said hello, I felt my face turn bright red. Hello - could I speak to Ann, please? After we'd said our hellos , it all went quiet and nobody knew what to do.
Oh, hello - what are you doing in here? You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Linguistics: interjections. Meeting people. Grammar Greetings and farewells: hello , goodbye , Happy New Year. Saying hello. Saying goodbye. Hello is also said at the beginning of a telephone conversation. She walked into the shop and called out, "Hello!
Is anybody here? Examples of hello. From the Hansard archive. Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3. When we considered the matter, we came up with bursaries, golden hellos, training salaries, wiping off student loans, and keeping people in teaching by offering them professional support.
Asked 6 years, 8 months ago. Active 4 months ago. Viewed 24k times. Hello, Johnny. Who is there? Improve this question. Gurpreet Gurpreet 1, 12 12 gold badges 24 24 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges. As a native speaker and even one who studies grammar and linguistics a bit, I had never heard of those particular terms, major and minor sentences.
In elementary school we were all also taught the oversimplified "truth" that a sentence must have a subject and a verb. Just think of the period as a separator between thoughts and not get hung up on a technical definition. I agree with shawnt00 that it's unwise to get "hung up on a technical definition," but in some cases for instance, when being specifically asked to write or speak in complete sentences it's important to be capable of distinguishing between all valid solitary utterances and "complete sentences" as such.
My name is Inigo Montoya. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Is "hello. What do you want for dinner? Vegetable curry. You surprised me. Other exclamations include Bingo! If you need a verb for them to be a sentence, you can think of the sentence as " I say 'Hello! If you need a verb for it to be a sentence, you can consider the sentence to be Yes, I say. Are you "okay" with that?
Recommended additional reading: Sentence Well-formedness. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. I think this is the best way to think of it. You don't need to state an action while you are doing it.
You may have to write "I am running to first base," but when you actually do it, you generally don't say anything. Brian Hitchcock Brian Hitchcock 8, 12 12 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Yes, "hello. No, interjections do not constitute "full sentences" or "complete sentences" in the sense in which those phrases are typically used. For instance, when a teacher asks one to write in "complete sentences," I do not believe "Hello.
KyleStrand That is just it. It all comes down to definitions. If one answers the question from a grammar teacher's viewpoint, or from a linguist's viewpoint, we're going get entirety different answers to many questions.
You're not "defining [your] terms," you're just asserting that "Hello. Show 4 more comments. Analysis and labels are not inherent properties of the thing they describe: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. Steve Jessop Steve Jessop 1, 8 8 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. One of the best ELL answers I've ever read! It's all about what's in a name or, in this case, what's in a definition.
The Stoic view of emotion as a reprehensible departure from reason lies behind Augustine's [— CE] exposition of the interjections racha and fatue in the Sermon on the Mount: But I say to you: anyone who nurses anger against his brother will be brought to judgement.
This caused me to investigate the edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors especially with the part-of-speech tagging for it to be viable for Word Type. Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition.
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