| Simple Sentence | ||||
| Two-member | One-member | |||
| Complete | Incomplete | Extended | Non-extended | |
| Extended | Non-extended | |||
Sentences are classified into the following types in accordance with the following principles:
1. As for the purpose of utterance:
1) Narrative (Affirmative (утвердительные), Negative (отрицательные)):
All people are created equal.
There are no Jagoes in the world.
2) Interrogative (вопросительные): Do you believe in Man?
3) Exclamatory (восклицательные): Life is life!
4) Imperative (побудительные): Be yourself.
2. As for the meaning / significance of the Subject:
1) Personal: People develop through their mistakes.
2) Impersonal: It is nice world.
3) Indefinitely Personal: There is love in the world.
3. As for the presence of the Main Members:
1) One-member: Night. Summer night.
2) Two-member: Man lives.
4. As for the completeness of the Members:
1) Complete: He is a man now.
2) Incomplete / Elliptical: Has become a man.
5. As for the presence of the Secondary Members:
1) Extended: Life is full of black and white sides.
2) Non-extended: Life is mine.
7.3. Semantics of the Sentence. Relevant Model.
Words denote objects, things, phenomena and the Sentence denotes events.
Semantic units of the Sentence which are the language correspondences of the elements of an event are called Semantic Roles (tab. 8.2).
Table 8.2