# <sentence>, <s>

Description

Identifies the enclosed text as a sentence. For brevity, `<s>` is equivalent to `<sentence>`.

Syntax

    <sentence
        xml:lang="language">
      child elements
    </sentence>

Attributes

Attribute | Description
xml:lang | Defines the language and locale for this sentence. Optional.

Parents

<audio>, <choice>, <enumerate>, <foreach>, <paragraph>, <p>, <prompt>, <prosody>, <speak>, <voice>

Children

<audio>, <break>, <emphasis>, <mark>, <phoneme>, <prosody>, <say-as>, <sub>, <voice>, <value>, #PCDATA

Limitations/Restrictions

- Currently, `<enumerate>` and `<mark>` are not supported within `<sentence>`/`<s>`.
- `<sentence>`/`<s>` are only supported as a child of `<foreach>` when `<foreach>` is used within `<prompt>`.
- Refer to your vendor documentation for support details.

Example

To include speech markup tags, insert the SSML tags inside one of the `<prompt>`, `<audio>`, `<choice>`, `<enumerate>`, or `<foreach>` (within `<prompt>`) elements.

    <prompt>
       <p>
          <s>This is the first sentence of the first paragraph.</s>
          <s>This is the second sentence of the first paragraph.</s>
       </p>
    </prompt>