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Requirements of a Sentence
  1. A sentence needs a capital letter at the beginning.
  2. A sentence needs a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point at the end.
  3. A sentence needs a subject.
  4. A sentence needs a finite verb (either a simple verb or an auxiliary, such as is, were, has, had, will, can, might, should, do or does, followed by another verb form).
  5. A sentence needs standard word order. In English, the regular sequence is SVO (Subject-Verb-Object), with insertions possible at several points in the sequence.
  6. A sentence needs an independent "core" idea, which can stand alone. This is known as a main clause or an independent clause.
All of these requirements help you to communicate better - your sentences will express the ideas in your head instead of just confusing the reader. Therefore, your paragraphs will be well developed and easy to understand.
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