Does a sentence have to have a verb?

[Jack the Ripper]

No. <--That sentence didn't.

 

[Marla_Singer]

Well, I don't know english enough to know what's the difference between a sentence and a phrase. "Phrase" means "sentence" in French... so I assume that "Phrase" is a synonimous of "sentence" but of course I may be wrong.

Well at least, "to begin" and "to commence" are synonimous... with the first one having a germanic root when the other one have a French root (French verb "commencer").

 

[cgannon64]

Personally, I fancy the idea that Borges wrote about in some imaginary world he made up: All sentences were strings of adjectives.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Well, I don't know english enough to know what's the difference between a sentence and a phrase. "Phrase" means "sentence" in French... so I assume that "Phrase" is a synonimous of "sentence" but of course I may be wrong.

Phrases are subsets of sentences in English grammar.

"on the road" is a prepositional phrase in the sentence "Marla went on the road to get a better picture of the covered bridge." "On" is the preposition. "of the covered bridge" is another prepositional phrase.

Clauses are also subsets of sentences. Thequstion seems to have boiled down to whether or not interjections like "Wow!' are considered sentences.