Dialogue

 1 Intro|       Theaetetus is flying,’ is a sentence in form quite as grammatical
 2 Intro|         man learns’; the simplest sentence is composed of two words,
 3 Intro|      subject. For example, in the sentence, ‘Theaetetus sits,’ which
 4 Intro|           the subject, and in the sentence ‘Theaetetus flies,’ ‘Theaetetus’
 5  Soph| succession of nouns only is not a sentence, any more than of verbs
 6  Soph|           What is it?~STRANGER: A sentence must and cannot help having
 7  Soph|         STRANGER: I will repeat a sentence to you in which a thing
 8  Soph|         shall tell me of whom the sentence speaks.~THEAETETUS: I will,
 9  Soph|  Theaetetus sits’—not a very long sentence.~THEAETETUS: Not very.~STRANGER:
10  Soph|        STRANGER: Of whom does the sentence speak, and who is the subject?
11  Soph|        subject.~STRANGER: Or this sentence, again—~THEAETETUS: What
12  Soph|           again—~THEAETETUS: What sentence?~STRANGER: ‘Theaetetus,
13  Soph|        THEAETETUS: That also is a sentence which will be admitted by
14  Soph|    STRANGER: We agreed that every sentence must necessarily have a
15  Soph|      STRANGER: And it would be no sentence at all if there were no
16  Soph|     subject, for, as we proved, a sentence which has no subject is