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The word (

single

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The Kings did not post a single winning record between 2006 and this season.


—Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2023




Of that, $2 million would be used to create a single entity to oversee all of California’s efforts, instead of allowing half a dozen state departments and hundreds of local efforts to run without cohesion — a critical missing piece to fix a chaotic system.


—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023




Probably the lack of ball security, as the Panthers turned the ball over an average of 15 times a game with a single-game high of 27 at Iowa State.


—Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023




Detectors with a single antenna only look for radar in front of a vehicle.


—Doug Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023




There are also several hiking and biking trails, including the impressive Big Hollow Trail and the Connector Trail, which offers bikers 10-plus miles of single track.


—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023




Of the 13 clubs since 1969 that improved by 27 or more games in a single campaign, all but one had a worse record the following year, according to MLB.com.


—Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023




There’s space behind the seats to fit a single golf bag as well frunk space that can easily accommodate two carry-on luggage bags.


—Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 30 Mar. 2023




The quarterly meetings typically focused on a single topic, which ranged from VC funding strategies in China to up-and-coming sectors.


—Saritha Rai, Fortune, 30 Mar. 2023

While the other members of Blackpink had previously released singles prior to the tour, Jisoo had yet to debut a solo track.


—Tim Chan, Rolling Stone, 31 Mar. 2023




Reese Holden and Kenzie Robinson laced back-to-back singles, with Holden scoring on an RBI groundout by Mackenzie Mayers.


—Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023




His single on opening night at the Oakland Coliseum was a prime example of the kinds of opportunities that will be created for him.


—Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023




Considering all this, there might be a reason why that particular single failed to earn gold, bronze, or even limestone.


—Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023




Alcantara was lifted after giving up two walks and two singles that led to two runs in the sixth.


—Alanis Thames, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023




Yoan Moncada and Andrew Benintendi delivered back-to-back two-out singles for Chicago, but Framber Valdez forced Yasmani Grandal into a groundout to end the inning.


—Josh Criswell, Chron, 30 Mar. 2023




Brasier took over in the fifth inning and got two outs before allowing three runs on two walks, two singles, and a wild pitch.


—Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Mar. 2023




Stroman was excellent today, allowing three hits in six shutout innings, all singles.


—Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023

Trump also singled out Merchan’s daughter, about whom Trump’s adult sons shared articles on social media.


—Isaac Arnsdorf And Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Apr. 2023




Trump also singled out Merchan’s daughter, about whom Trump’s adult sons shared articles on social media.


—Josh Dawsey, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Apr. 2023




Tucker then singled to send Bregman home.


—Kristie Rieken, Chron, 4 Apr. 2023




Adams singled out Greene during Monday’s press conference.


—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023




In warning protesters, Mr. Adams singled out Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a conservative Republican from Georgia and staunch Trump backer who has criticized the decision to indict Mr. Trump.


—Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023




Adams singled out Greene during Monday’s press conference.


—Salvador Hernandez And Richard Winton Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 3 Apr. 2023




Monday, Noda singled to center in his first at-bat to start a rally against Plesac.


—Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2023




Yet Israel is singled out.


—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 1 Apr. 2023


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Articles like «the» or «a» are used with nouns. «Single» is most commonly used an adjective, and is only a noun in a few limited contexts.

In your example, the noun is «type», and what matters is if whether you make it singular or plural, «type» or «types». The adjective «single» doesn’t make any difference. Example:

This graph shows a single point of intersection between the two functions.

This graph shows multiple points of intersection between the two functions.

Naturally, it would be weird to say something like:

This graph shows a single points of …

For general interest, here are a couple of examples using «single» as a noun:

The Beatles’ song «Hey Jude» was first released as a single in 1968

It’s not easy living as a single in the big city.

Late in the eighth inning the batter hit a lazy single to shallow right field, driving home the go-ahead run.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A sentence word (also called a one-word sentence) is a single word that forms a full sentence.

Henry Sweet described sentence words as ‘an area under one’s control’ and gave words such as «Come!», «John!», «Alas!», «Yes.» and «No.» as examples of sentence words.^[1] The Dutch linguist J. M. Hoogvliet described sentence words as «volzinwoorden».^[2] They were also noted in 1891 by Georg von der Gabelentz, whose observations were extensively elaborated by Hoogvliet in 1903; he does not list «Yes.» and «No.» as sentence words. Wegener called sentence words «Wortsätze».^[3]

Single-word utterances and child language acquisition[edit]

One of the predominant questions concerning children and language acquisition deals with the relation between the perception and the production of a child’s word usage. It is difficult to understand what a child understands about the words that they are using and what the desired outcome or goal of the utterance should be.^[4]

Holophrases are defined as a «single-word utterance which is used by a child to express more than one meaning usually attributed to that single word by adults.»^[5] The holophrastic hypothesis argues that children use single words to refer to different meanings in the same way an adult would represent those meanings by using an entire sentence or phrase. There are two opposing hypotheses as to whether holophrases are structural or functional in children. The two hypotheses are outlined below.

Structural holophrastic hypothesis[edit]

The structural version argues that children’s “single word utterances are implicit expressions of syntactic and semantic structural relations.” There are three arguments used to account for the structural version of the holophrastic hypothesis: The comprehension argument, the temporal proximity argument, and the progressive acquisition argument.^[5]

• The comprehension argument is based on the idea that comprehension in children is more advanced than production throughout language acquisition. Structuralists believe that children have knowledge of sentence structure but they are unable to express it due to a limited lexicon. For example, saying “Ball!” could mean “Throw me the ball” which would have the structural relation of the subject of the verb. However, studies attempting to show the extent to which children understand syntactic structural relation, particularly during the one-word stage, end up showing that children “are capable of extracting the lexical information from a multi-word command,” and that they “can respond correctly to a multi-word command if that command is unambiguous at the lexical level.”^[5] This argument therefore does not provide evidence needed to prove the structural version of the holophrastic hypothesis because it fails to prove that children in the single-word stage understand structural relations such as the subject of a sentence and the object of a verb.^[5]
• The temporal proximity argument is based on the observation that children produce utterances referring to the same thing, close to each other. Even the utterances aren’t connected, it is argued that children know about the linguistic relationships between the words, but cannot connect them yet.^[5] An example is laid out below:

→ Child: «Daddy» (holding pair of fathers pants)

→ Child

1. «Bai» (‘bai’ is the term the child uses for any item of clothing)

The usage of ‘Daddy’ and ‘Bai’ used in close proximity are seen to represent a child’s knowledge of linguistic relations; in this case the relation is the ‘possessive’.^[6] This argument is seen as having insufficient evidence as it is possible that the child is only switching from one way to conceptualize pants to another. It is also pointed out that if the child had knowledge of linguistic relationships between words, then the child would combine the words together, instead of using them separately.^[5]

• Finally, the last argument in support of structuralism is the progressive acquisition argument. This argument states that children progressively gain new structural relations throughout the holophrastic stage. This is also unsupported by the research.^[5]

Functional holophrastic hypothesis[edit]

Functionalists doubt whether children really have structural knowledge, and argue that children rely on gestures to carry meaning (such as declarative, interrogative, exclamative or vocative). There are three arguments used to account for the functional version of the holophrastic hypothesis: The intonation argument, the gesture argument, and the predication argument.^[5]

• The intonation argument suggests that children use intonation in a contrastive way. Researchers have established through longitudinal studies that children have knowledge of intonation and can use it to communicate a specific function across utterances.^[7][8][9] Compare the two examples below:

→ Child: «Ball.» (flat intonation) — Can mean «That is a ball.»

1. → Child: «Ball?» (rising inflection) — Can mean «Where is the ball?»

However, it has been noted by Lois Bloom that there is no evidence that a child intends for intonation to be contrastive, it is only that adults are able to interpret it as such.^[10] Martyn Barrett contrasts this with a longitudinal study performed by him, where he illustrated the acquisition of a rising inflection by a girl who was a year and a half old. Although she started out using intonation randomly, upon acquisition of the term «What’s that» she began to use rising intonation exclusively for questions, suggesting knowledge of its contrastive usage.^[11]

• The gesture argument establishes that some children use gesture instead of intonation contrastively. Compare the two examples laid out below:

→ Child: «Milk.» (points at milk jug) — could mean “That is milk.”

1. → Child: «Milk.» (open-handed gesture while reaching for a glass of milk) — could mean “I want milk.”

Each use of the word ‘milk’ in the examples above could have no use of intonation, or a random use of intonation, and so meaning is reliant on gesture. Anne Carter observed, however, that in the early stages of word acquisition children use gestures primarily to communicate, with words merely serving to intensify the message.^[12] As children move onto multi-word speech, content and context are also used alongside gesture.

• The predication argument suggests that there are three distinct functions of single word utterances, ‘Conative’, which is used to direct the behaviour of oneself or others; ‘Expressive’, which is used to express emotion; and referential, which is used to refer to things.^[13] The idea is that holophrases are predications, which is defined as the relationship between a subject and a predicate. Although McNeill originally intended this argument to support the structural hypothesis, Barrett believes that it more accurately supports the functional hypothesis, as McNeill fails to provide evidence that predication is expressed in holophrases.^[5]

Single-word utterances and adult usage[edit]

While children use sentence words as a default strategy due to lack of syntax and lexicon, adults tend to use sentence words in a more specialized way, generally in a specific context or to convey a certain meaning. Because of this distinction, single word utterances in children are called ‘holophrases’, while in adults, they are called ‘sentence words’. In both the child and adult use of sentence words, context is very important and relative to the word chosen, and the intended meaning.

Sentence word formation[edit]

Many sentence words have formed from the process of devaluation and semantic erosion. Various phrases in various languages have devolved into the words for «yes» and «no» (which can be found discussed in detail in yes and no), and these include expletive sentence words such as «Well!» and the French word «Ben!» (a parallel to «Bien!»).^[14]

However, not all word sentences suffer from this loss of lexical meaning. A subset of sentence words, which Fonagy calls «nominal phrases», exist that retain their lexical meaning. These exist in Uralic languages, and are the remainders of an archaic syntax wherein there were no explicit markers for nouns and verbs. An example of this is the Hungarian language «Fecske!», which transliterates as «Swallow!», but which has to be idiomatically translated with multiple words «Look! A swallow!» for rendering the proper meaning of the original, which to a native Hungarian speaker is neither elliptical nor emphatic. Such nominal phrase word sentences occur in English as well, particularly in telegraphese or as the rote questions that are posed to fill in form data (e.g. «Name?», «Age?»).^[14]

Sentence word syntax[edit]

A sentence word involves invisible covert syntax and visible overt syntax. The invisible section or «covert» is the syntax that is removed in order to form a one word sentence. The visible section or «overt» is the syntax that still remains in a sentence word.^[15] Within sentence word syntax there are 4 different clause-types: Declarative (making a declaration), exclamative (making an exclamation), vocative (relating to a noun), and imperative (a command).

Sentence Word Syntax Examples

	Overt	Covert
Declarative	‘That is excellent!’	‘Excellent!’
Exclamative	‘That was rude!’	‘Rude!’
Vocative	‘There is Mary!’	‘Mary!’
Imperative	‘You should leave!’	‘Leave!’
Locative	‘The chair is here.’	‘Here.’
Interrogative	‘Where is it?’	‘Where?’

The words in bold above demonstrate that in the overt syntax structures, there are words that can be omitted in order to form a covert sentence word.

Distribution cross-linguistically[edit]

Other languages use sentence words as well.

• In Japanese, a holophrastic or single-word sentence is meant to carry the least amount of information as syntactically possible, while intonation becomes the primary carrier of meaning.^[16] For example, a person saying the Japanese word e.g. «はい» (/haɪ/) = ‘yes’ on a high level pitch would command attention. Pronouncing the same word using a mid tone, could represent an answer to a roll-call. Finally, pronouncing this word with a low pitch could signify acquiescence: acceptance of something reluctantly.^[16]

Japanese Word «はい» (/haɪ/) ‘Yes’

High tone pitch	Mid tone pitch	Low tone pitch
Command attention	Represent an answer to roll-call	Signify acquiescence acceptance of something reluctantly

• Modern Hebrew also exhibits examples of sentence words in its language, e.g. «.חַם» (/χam/) = «It is hot.» or «.קַר» (/kar/) = «It is cold.».

References[edit]

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Here I’m going to highlight some of the simplest sentences in English. All of these sentences are only ONE word long! Sit back, relax, and enjoy; these are going to be some of the easiest English sentences you’ve ever learned. (It is about time something in English was easy, right?!)

One-word sentences in English come in a few different forms:
interrogatives or questions (example: Who?)
imperatives or commands (example: Stop!)
declaratives (example: Me.)
locatives (example: Here.)
nominatives (example: Jesse.)

In fact a lot of words in English can be one-word sentences, it all depends on the context.

A complete sentence, even a one-word sentence, needs to have a noun and a verb. In one-word sentences the subject (noun) or the action (verb) of the sentence is implied. That means it is understood in the context of the sentence (or the sentences around it) so that the subject and/or verb do not need to be stated explicitly.

Being brief and saying as much as you can in as few words as possible is something a lot of people want to do. Be careful though, sometimes you can sound robotic or rude if you use too many one-word sentences.

Here is a list of some common one-word sentences. I’m sure you already use some of these.  Along side the one-word sentences I have written out what you could say, with more words, to mean the same thing.

Hi. (Hi there.)
Wait. (Please wait.)
Begin. (You may begin.)
Stop. (You need to stop.)
Hurry. (Hurry up please.)
Catch. (Catch this.)
Here. (Here you go.)
Go! (Get going now!)
Help! (I need help!)
Eat. (Go ahead and eat.)
Yes.  (Yes, that would be great.)
No.  (No, thank you.)
Thank you. (Thank you, I really appreciate it.)
The wh-question words: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? 
A lot of swear words: Sh*t., F*ck., etc.

Do you have a favorite one-word sentence? Add to this list by posting a comment below! Thank you.