What is the longest sentence ever?

Answer 1

This is an impossible measurement. The reason is that no matter how long the sentence, you can always add another word and make it longer

Answer 2

I don't know how long the longest sentence in printed literature was, but considering that you can essentially keep tacking stuff onto a sentence to make it longer and longer ad infinitum, I doubt that any "longest sentence ever written" would hold the record for long before somebody else with too much time on their hands comes along and writes a sentence that is yet longer than that, considering that I managed to type this entire paragraph-length piece of coherent text without ending a sentence, and was able to do it without running into any big problems, although reading this is admittedly quite a strain, since there is not a place for a person to pause and catch their breath while reading this sentence aloud until right now.

Answer 3

The rules of grammar aren't strict enough to impose a maximum word limit, but there are only so many commas and clauses you can use! To a large extent it depends upon the way the author wants their writing to flow, and you will often find that a different writer thinks a sentance should actually be punctuated differently. Personally, although I don't normally count, I have written a perfectly coherent sentence that was about 55 words long - which I think is pretty good going!
As long as a sentence makes sense and can be read comfortably, it can be as long as you choose to make it.

Answer 4

In Pakistan a woman got caught cheating on her husband and was sentenced to the equivalent of a ten thousand dollar fine and 25 years hard labour before being stoned to death (probably by the rocks she'd spent so long smashing up)!

Answer 5

there was this guy that one time had went into a wet bar that was not for his type of people, if you know what I mean then you would also know that this is a made up sentence that shows you that no matter what you dont have to end the sentence unless you want to or if you dont know any better like me.

Answer 6

Given that you're posting in languages rather than law, I'm assuming you mean sentence in the grammatical sense? In which case, I suspect the 'stream of consciousness' of Molly Bloom's soliloquoy inJames Joyce's "Ulysses" must be a prime candidate for the answer to this question.

Answer 7

There are some scentific words over a hundred letters long - a sentance using a few dozen of these would be very long. You can probably construct a sentance of over a thousand words if you had enough time to do so.

Answer 8

Are u talking about a prison sentence??

Answer 9

If you are referring to written sentence as opposed to jail sentence - cannot answer you but would "No" be the shortest.

Answer 10

One that shouldn't be a sentence, but rather a paragraph.