KINDS OF SIMPLE SENTENCES

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Simple sentences have six forms: Statements; Assumptions, Commands, Wishes; Questions; and Exclamations. Of these, Assumptions, Commands, and Wishes express will. See 2153 ff.

Herbert Weir Smyth.

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