Text and Sentence

Abstract

In the past, the sentence was considered the basic linguistic unit in describing language. But not all sentences can describe language. Because sometimes though a sentence is grammatically correct, it has no meaning in isolation. It needs to be related to other sentences and a context. Therefore, the present paper aims to expose how the sentence structure, as a linguistic unit, alone cannot convey the meaning, and that text, a coherent set of sentences, becomes the linguistic unit that elucidates language and evinces the implied meanings.