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Prior to taking English courses and knowing of the existence of parts of speech, it is natural to ask what a sentence is. In writing, the division of a text into sentences is relatively easy. It is a matter of finding the sequences of words that start with a capital letter and end with a period. These word sequences are sentences. In the spoken language, things are not as easy. The explicit boundaries of the written language do not exist. On the other hand, one thing is certain: native speakers have intuitions about what constitutes or does not constitute a sentence, since the message they convey is based on the concept of a clause (or an idea), usually expressed as a basic sentence. One can only conclude that the sentence constitutes a unity. In the spoken language, intonation may help to segment a message into sentences but there must also be something else since the native speakers can easily recognize a grammatically-incorrect sentence even if it has a normal intonation. Therefore, what is interesting are the principles of the constitution of a sentence which make it possible to recognize the said sentence in a message. The unity represented by the sentence has an organization that cannot be broken. Some parts of the sentence can be eliminated and/or moved without affecting the grammar correctness.
