ADJ
- long, short
- Try to keep your sentences short
- complete, whole
- broken, incomplete
- grammatical, grammatically correct
- grammatically incorrect, ungrammatical
- coherent
- affirmative, negative
- complex, simple
- compound
VERB + SENTENCE
- begin
- finish
- Peter finished Jane's sentence for her
- construct, form, formulate, generate, write
- He can barely form a grammatical sentence
- parse
SENTENCE + VERB
- contain sth, have sth
- Does the sentence contain an adverb?
ADJ
- maximum, minimum
- long, short
- harsh, heavy, severe, stiff
- lenient, light
- indefinite, indeterminate
- appropriate
- mandatory
- The judge imposed the mandatory sentence for murder
- suspended
- custodial, jail, prison
- non-custodial
- death
- life
VERB + SENTENCE
- hand down, impose, pass, pronounce
- The judge will pass sentence on the accused this afternoon
- be given, get, receive
- serve
- He will have to serve a life sentence
- carry out
- await
- He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence
- face
- She could face a long prison sentence
- commute, reduce
- The death sentence may be commuted to life imprisonment
- suspend
- appeal against
- review
- quash
- carry
- The offence carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison
PREP
- under ~ (of)
- He has been in prison for two months under sentence of death
- ~ for
- an eight-year sentence for burglary