The notion of the sentence and its functions

We see that the sentence implements the function of the language as a whole - to be a means of communication, a means of exchanging information, exchanging thoughts, a means of forming thought itself.The mental representations reflected in the statements correlate with various situations of reality, which the speaker isolates in the process of his speech-thinking activity. Designating a certain situation, a fact, a "state of affairs", the proposal thereby also performs a nominative function. The denotation of a sentence is a situation, a fact, a fragment of reality, covering objects, their signs, their relationships with each other.Being not just a structural, but also a communicative unit, a sentence in the process of verbal communication acquires properties that are only potentially embedded in the sentence and are implemented when the sentence is actualized in speech.A realized proposal, i.e. the statement, therefore, is richer in its characteristics than a sentence taken in abstraction from the conditions of realization. This is true, but there can be nothing in a statement that is not laid down as a potential in a sentence. Thus, each utterance (i.e., an updated sentence) appears as a speech manifestation of a linguistic unit - a sentence. Thecentralityoftheproposalremains.ReferencesBarhudarovL.S. "Strukturaprostogopredlozheniyasovremennogoanglijskogoyazyka" - "VysshayaSHkola", Moskva, 1966. 213 p.Buslaev, F. I. O prepodavaniiotechestvennogoyazyka / F. I. Buslaev. — Moskva :Izdatel'stvoYUrajt, 2019. — 266 p.Ivanova, I.P. Teoreticheskayagrammatikasovremennogoanglijskogoyazyka / I.P. Ivanova, V.V. Burlakova, G.G. Pochepcov. — L. :Vysshayashkola, 1981. — 286 p.M.Y.Blokh, A Course in Theoretical English Grammar, 2016. 341 p.Smirnickij A.I. "Sintaksisanglijskogoyazyka" - Izdatel'stvoLiteraturynaInostrannyhYAzykah, Moskva, 1957. 218 p.Vinogradov N.G. Teoreticheskayagrammatikaanglijskogoyazyka. - Bijsk: GOU VPO BPGU, 2008. - 32 p.Potebnya A. A. Izzapisokporusskojgrammatike. T. I - II - Moskva: Uchpedgiz, 1958. 218 p.Pochepcov G.G. Konstruktivnyjanalizstrukturypredlozheniya.Kiev, 1971.– 190 p.Shahmatov, A. A. Ocherksovremennogorusskogoliteraturnogoyazyka :uchebnikdlyavuzov / A. A. SHahmatov ; pod redakciej S. P. Obnorskogo. — Moskva :Izdatel'stvoYUrajt, 2019. — 235 p.