The various structures of sentences in any given language, comprising for example at least two nominal pieces and a verbal piece must be collated, an… - John Rupert Firth

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The various structures of sentences in any given language, comprising for example at least two nominal pieces and a verbal piece must be collated, and such categories as voice, mood, affirmative, negative, tense, aspect, gender, number, person and case, if found applicable and valid in descriptive statement, are to be abstracted from, and referred back to the sentence as a whole.