If you go along with saying “yes” to things you don’t really want to do, you are going to need to learn to put the word “no” in your vocabulary. Not only that, but you need to remember that “No” is a complete sentence.

A complete sentence always contains a verb, expresses a complete idea and makes sense standing alone. This is a complete sentence as it contains a verb (reads), expresses a complete idea and it does not need any further information for the reader to understand the sentence. When Andy reads is an incomplete sentence.

How many words should we have in a sentence? A common plain English guideline says an average of 15–20 words (Cutts, 2009; Plain English Campaign, 2015; Plain Language Association InterNational, 2015). Such sentences are clearer, less intimidating, and easier to scan (Cutts, 2009; Vincent, 2014).

When is a sentence too long? It is difficult to come up with a magic number or formula for determining when a sentence is too long. A 12-word sentence that minces words can be too long, while a crystal clear, beautifully-composed 22-word sentence is sometimes just perfect. In general, though, never go beyond 30 words.

“Go!” Is The Shortest Grammatically Correct Sentence In English (+29 Fun Facts)

• According to the Global Language Monitor, the estimated number of words in the English language is 1,025,109.
• “I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The Guinness Book of Records lists the longest proper sentence as one from William Faulkner’s novel ‘Absalom, Absalom!’ (1,287 words). Some ancient languages, such as Sanskrit and Greek, did not have any punctuation. So all their sentences were long!

Verbs without action, such as “am,” when used as a predicate, must have something to complete the meaning—a complement. So you “am” “something.” “I am happy” is a sentence since “happy” is fulfilling the complement role. Therefore, “I am” is not a sentence.

Let’s look at some examples. I went to the store yesterday. The subject is “I” and the verb is “went,” and the sentence expresses a complete and independent thought.

[M] [T] I bought her a toy cat, but she wasn’t happy with it. [M] [T] To be happy, you should spend time with someone you love. [M] [T] I want to spend more time doing things that make me happy. [M] [T] I can’t tell you how happy I am that you’ve come to visit us.

It also is a complete thought. Example: Sit down! Hurry up! Although these word groups look like fragments because they appear to have no subject, these are examples of imperative sentences.

a sentence like I goes to school is considered ungrammat. ical. The verb to go must be conjugated to agree with the subject I. I goes to school.

17 Sentences That Can Change Your Life

• We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
• Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
• If you wait, all that happens is you get older.
• All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
• If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.

Happiness is an emotional state characterized by feelings of joy, satisfaction, contentment, and fulfillment. While happiness has many different definitions, it is often described as involving positive emotions and life satisfaction.

Happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can’t help but smile. It’s the opposite of sadness. Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness.

Yes! Many happy people realize happiness is a choice and it’s up to them to intentionally choose it every single day. Happy people are not held hostage by their circumstances and they do not seek happiness in people or possessions. Fully experiencing it still requires a conscious decision to choose happiness each day.

Some common positive emotions include:

• Love.
• Joy.
• Satisfaction.
• Contentment.
• Interest.
• Amusement.
• Happiness.
• Serenity.

Love

Ambivalence is a state of having simultaneous conflicting reactions, beliefs, or feelings towards some object. Explicit ambivalence may or may not be experienced as psychologically unpleasant when the positive and negative aspects of a subject are both present in a person’s mind at the same time. …

The most frequent emotion was joy, followed by love and anxiety. People experienced positive emotions 2.5 times more often than negative emotions, but also experienced positive and negative emotions simultaneously relatively frequently.

You can actually tell that you’re experiencing two discrepant emotions at once when you experience more than a single physical sensation in your body and can recognize each sensation as connected to, or aligned with, a different feeling.