Does a sentence have to have a verb?

[Perfection]

Well People kept threadjacking the The Official Perfection KOs Creationism thread arguing this question so I figued I'd give them a proper thread. So answer tihs question:

Does a setence have to have a verb?

 

[Warman17]

No. (10 char)

 

[Azadre]

No. (10 char)

That is an interjection. A sentence is a logical subject-verb pattern.

 

[newfangle]

Good God I don't know! I'd have to see a few exampls of sentences without verbs.

 

[CivCube]

And I as well.

 

[WillJ]

Yes. What Azadre said.

Not that fragments are necessarily abominations or anything.

 

[Mise]

Yes, by definition, a sentence must have a verb. It's not a sentence otherwise, it's something else. Lets just leave it at that, shall we?

 

[Tomoyo]

Not in some languages, nyo...

 

[CivCynic]

Before I read this thread, I was just thinking..."Perfection asking if a sentence needs a verb?" :suicide:

Yes, proper sentences need verbs.

 

[MarineCorps]

My mother is an english major so I'll ask her later.

 

[The Last Conformist]

No. A sentence doesn't need a verb. A sentence needs a predicate, but predicates don't necessarily contain verbs.

 

[Akka]

Technicall, perhaps, but on practice, no.

(example above )

 

[nonconformist]

Yes, it needs a ver. Without a verb, it is technically a phrase, hence why "I am" is the shoprtest sentnce in the English Language, but "No" isn't.

 

[Bacon King]

Yes, a sentence has to have a subject and a predicate, and it's a verb that divides the two.

 

[Paalikles]

A sentence without a verb is by definition an incomplete sentence

 

[oagersnap]

Yes, it needs a ver. Without a verb, it is technically a phrase, hence why "I am" is the shoprtest sentnce in the English Language, but "No" isn't.

No, you're wrong! The shortest sentence is "u r."
(At least some poeple here on civfanatics write that way... )

 

[Marla_Singer]

Saying "Oh!" is already a sentence. Interjections are sentences.

When you say "O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command.", there are three sentences.
Not simply one.

 

[nonconformist]

Saying "Oh!" is already a sentence. Interjections are sentences.

When you say "O Canada! Our home and native land! True patriot love in all thy sons command.", there are three sentences.
Not simply one.

The first two are exclamations, or phrases. The last is a sentence.

 

[u-gene]

Sentence - a group of words that express a complete thought and form a statement, question, exclamation, or command. (The Oxford Dictionary of the English Language). So, "No", "Oh" etc. are quite legitimate sentences.

 

[Alpine Trooper]

No it doesn't.