Sentence Length

Sentence length may refer to:

  • In linguistics, the length of a Sentence (linguistics)
  • In penology, the length of a Sentence (law)
  • In music, the length of a Sentence (music)

Famous quotes containing the words sentence and/or length:

    “When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs ... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb’s bleat.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The value of life lies not in the length of days but in the use you make of them; he has lived for a long time who has little lived.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)