MODR 1711 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chocolate Cake, Dependent Clause
1 Oct 2015
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Propositions are statements or assertions in the form of a sentence that express a state of affairs or judgement: it is raining outside. , chocolate cake makes people happy. , it is unethical to tell untruths. An important way to determine whether something is a proposition is if it is the type of thing that can be true or false. This means that propositions take the form of declarative sentences that must contain both a subject (who or what the sentence is about) and predicate (verb phrase that states something about the subject). Propositions refers to the content of a sentence and not the specific structure. This means that different sentences can convey the same proposition: it is laundry day on tuesday vs. tuesday is laundry day , my cat selena is very fat vs. my cat selena is very overweight .
