Friday, May 6, 2011

Building a Compound

It is easy to determine a sentence such as "Anton donate his blood" is a statement that is true or false, simply by checking the fact whether he did or not. But not all sentences have a simple shape like that. Consider the example sentence "Anton donate his blood and has not washed his car, or he goes to the library. " That phrase is a combination of events that could occur or not on personal experience Anton. Statements like this are called compound statements. Compound statement is a statement which was formed from some simpler statement. A statement that the simplest compound can be formed by inserting the word 'not' or 'no' in a simple statement, or by combining two or more sentences using a simple statement of logic conjunctions like and, or, if - then - but only if ; and if and only if. Compound sentence 'Anton did not wash his car' comes from the more simple sentences of 'Anton wash his car'. The phrase "Anton blood donation and did not wash his car, or he went to the library," consisting of three statements, each of which can be true or false.

When did the compound sentences are true?
Before answering this, we learn first how simple sentences can be formed into sentences that are more complex sentences based on how they are linked. A compound statement can be a negation, conjunction, disjunction, conditional, or a combination thereof. Like what are they? We will discuss the following.

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