sentence formation
Constructing grammatical statements
Sentence formation is the process of arranging words into grammatically coherent sentences.
The term appears in language education and linguistics, referring both to the skill itself and to exercises that develop it: The workbook includes drills on sentence formation.
Native speakers form sentences intuitively; learners must practice combining subjects, verbs, and objects according to the rules of their target language.
- adjectiveNoun-describing word type
- wordLinguistic meaning unit
- building blocksBasic units for construction
- clauseProvision in agreement
- verb phraseAction-centered grammatical unit
noun phrase · adverb · meaning · conjunction · parsing · predicate · discourse · ambiguity · derivation · subject · noun · language acquisition · comma · syntax · phrase · inflection · compound word · working memory
- syntaxverb, noun, adjective, adverb, subject
- reading skillsvocabulary, literacy skills, decoding, grammar, fluency