ABSTRACT
A compressed sentence is characterized by its “form of a simple sentence” and its “content of a compound sentence.” With no speech pause in the middle, two predicates in a compressed sentence are often compressed into one by the adverb appearing in a pair or alone, rather not to be related by a conjunction. In general, compressed sentences are characterized by expressing complex meanings in a concise way, due to which their forms are limited in number and have been fixed gradually over a long term. Thus they cannot be invented at will. The conjunctive words for correlation help distinguish most compressed sentences from the other two types of sentences because their predicates are often compressed by these words. The common types of compressed sentences are: compressed sentences consisting of conjunctive words in a pair; compressed sentences consisting of one conjunctive word; compressed sentences with no conjunctive words; and compressed sentences consisting of conjunctions.
