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10/10 would lose to him again fr fr
A sentence can be made arbitrarily long by successive iterations, such as "Someone thinks that someone thinks that someone thinks that...,"[2] or by combining shorter clauses in various ways.
For example, sentences can be extended by recursively embedding clauses one into another, such as[3][4]
"The mouse ran away"
"The mouse that the cat hit ran away"
...
"The mouse that the cat that the dog that the man frightened and chased ran away"
The ability to embed structures within larger ones is called recursion.[5] This also highlights the difference between linguistic performance and linguistic competence, because the language can support more variation than can reasonably be created or recorded.[2]