For instance , Sells ( 1985 , p. 8 ) says that the sentence `` Reagan thinks bananas , '' which is otherwise strange , is in fact acceptable if it occurs as an answer to the question `` What is Kissinger 's favorite fruit ? ''
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A paragraph can be thought of as a grammatical unit in the following sense : it is the discourse unit in which a functional ( or a predicate-argument ) structure can be definitely assigned to sentences/strings . For instance , Sells ( 1985 , p. 8 ) says that the sentence `` Reagan thinks bananas , '' which is otherwise strange , is in fact acceptable if it occurs as an answer to the question `` What is Kissinger 's favorite fruit ? '' The pairing of these two sentences may be said to create a small paragraph .
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