But grammar takes no heed as to whether the thought expressed in any sentence be complete or not. Grammar merely demands that the expression of the thought be complete, if the result shall be called a sentence. That is to say, every sentence must be a grammatical whole, having at least one subject with its predicate verb. These definitions of the sentence hark back to the logical definition of a thought as synonymous with a judgment. Now the judgment, or logical proposition, is not necessarily the same thing as the sentence, and it is unfortunate for our school children that this fact has not yet been discovered by sundry book-makers. Observe, in its bearing upon this statement, the following definitions, taken from one of the most pretentious of the recent texts: