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There have been several claims for the longest sentence in the English language, usually with claims that revolve around the longest ''printed'' sentence. There is no absolute limit on the length of a written English sentence. A sentence can be made as long as time allows with concatenating (linking) clauses using grammatical conjunctions such as ''and''. Sentences can also be extended indefinitely by the addition of modifiers and modifier clauses, such as :''The mouse that the cat that the dog chased ....'' or of successive extensions of the form :''Someone thinks that someone thinks that someone thinks that...,'' Among the longest sentences written is Molly Bloom's soliloquy in the James Joyce novel Ulysses, which contains a sentence of 4,391 words. Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club appears to hold the record at 13,955 words. It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal's ''Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age'': a Czech language novel that consisted of one great sentence. The ability to embed structures within larger ones is called recursion. This also highlights the difference between linguistic performance and linguistic competence, because the language can support more variation than can reasonably be created or recorded.〔 At least one linguistics textbook concludes that, in theory, "there is no longest English sentence". ==See also== * Longest words 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Longest English sentence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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