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Longest English sentence
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There have been several claims for the longest sentence in the English language. Claims revolve around the longest printed sentence, as there is no absolute limit on the length of a written English sentence; a sentence describing successive reading, for example, could be infinitely long, and one concatenating clauses with grammatical conjunctions such as and could go on as long as material may be supplied. Also, a way to extend sentences indefinitely is by the addition of modifiers and modifier clauses, such as
The rat that the cat that the dog chased ran.[1]
or of successive extensions of the form
Someone thinks/knows/believes that someone thinks/knows/believes that...,[2]
which highlights the difference between linguistic performance and linguistic competence, because the language can support more variation than can reasonably be created or recorded.[2] Therefore, at least one linguistics textbook concludes that "there is no longest English sentence"[3]