The noun pretense means the attempt to make a falsehood seem true; a false display of feelings or intentions. He used the pretense of his mother's funeral to get a discount ticket. Of course, his...
When it has a subject, verb, punctuation, capitalization, a predicate, and a complete thought. A sentence is a sentence when it is handed down by a judge (or a magistrate).
A sentence is a sentence because it has a subject (noun or noun phrase), a predicate ( verb) and punctuation as well as the other parts of speech like pronouns ( she, it him, her, they, them)...