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SYNTAX ELEMENTS OF THE SENTENCEYou are here: syntax > period
A period is a group of sentences more or less complex.
In general the period has origin from a sentence that can exist alone and has a complete meaning.
This sentence is called independent sentence (or independent clause) if it's alone, main clause if it's with others.
Example:
"
Marco parla con Antonio.
"
To this independent sentence we can add others that enrich the meanings of the speech.
Example:
"
Prima di andare a lavorare, Marco parla con Antonio, perché vorrebbe fissare un appuntamento per andare
al cinema e per bere qualcosa insieme.
"
In this example there are 4 new sentences added to the main one.
These new sentences have different forms, times and moods of the verb, meanings and hierarchical relations.
For the form the sentences can be: - explicit
(when the form of the verb expresses the person of the subject)
- implicit
(when the form of the verb doesn't express the person of the subject)
For the hierarchical relations they can be: - co-ordinate
(when they have the same hierarchical importance)
- subordinating
(when they have a less hierarchical importance in relation to the supporting sentence)
Note:
For the meaning sentences can have many different forms that will be analyzed inside the hierarchical kind of sentence (co-ordinate or subordinating).
Note:
For mood and time sentences follow a general rule called concordance of times and moods.
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