If you'd like, I can make it sound more geeky. :D
Think of sentence as an object.
It has properties that make it what it is:
Think of sentence as an object.
It has properties that make it what it is:
- subject<>
- verb<>
- object<>
- punctuation mark<>
[st]There can be multiple instances of this object that inherit ALL of the sentence object properties.
Each instance will have its own methods and properties to make it different than all of the other sentence instances.
A statement is an instance of the sentence object.
It inherits the subject, verb, object, and punctuation mark properties of sentence.
A question is also an instance of the sentence object.
It inherits the subject, verb, object, and punctuation mark properties of sentence, and also adds its own property. I'll call it "the question word" because I don't know what it's really called.
Let's assign some values to these things.
Example 1: I am fine.
Properties inherited from sentence:
subject = "I";
verb = "am";
object = "fine"; // An adjective used as an object to describe the subject
puncMark = ".";
No other unique properties are needed to describe the statement instance.
Example 2: How do you do?
Properties inherited from sentence:
subject = "you";
verb = "do";
object = "do";
puncMark = "?";
Properties unique to question:
questionWord = "How";
So, as you can see, both instances inherit ALL of the properties of the sentence object; therefore, both are sentences. However, statement does not equal question.