How many kinds of sentence are there, though || But how many kinds of sentence are there? Assertion, question and command perhaps || Is it assertions, questions and commands? There are innumerable kinds: innumerable different kinds of application || applications of everything || all that we call “signs”, “words”, “sentences”. And this variety is nothing that is fixed, given once and for all, but new types of language, new language games – as we may say – spring up || come into being and others grew || become obsolete and are forgotten. (We can get a rough picture of this from || A rough picture of this we can get if we look at the changes || transformation in || which happen in mathematics.)
     The expression “language game” is supposed to emphasise here || used here to emphasise that the speaking of the language is part of an activity, or || part of a way of living. || of human beings.
     Bring the variety of the language games before your mind by || To get an idea of the enormous variety of language games consider these and other examples || examples, & others:
      commands || commanding || giving commands, and acting according to commands;
      describing an object according to its appearance, or according to || giving a description of an object by describing what it looks like, or by giving its measurements;
      producing an object according to a description (drawing);
      reporting a course of events || an event;
      setting up || making a hypothesis and testing it;
      presentation of || presenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagrams;
      performing in a theatre || acting a play;
      singing a catch;
      guessing riddles || asking riddles and guessing them;
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      making a joke, or telling one;
      solving an example || a problem in applied arithmetic;
      translating from one language into another;
      entreating || requesting, thanking, swearing, greeting, praying.
– It is interesting to compare the variety of the instruments of our language and of their applications || the ways they are applied || their various uses – the variety of the parts of speech and of the kinds of || kinds of words & of sentences – with what logicians have said about the structure of our language. (And the author of the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus as well || Including the author of Tract. Log.-phil.¤)