But [H|h]ow many kinds of sentence are there, though? ˇIs it [A|a]ssertion[,|s], questions and commands perhaps? – There are innumerable kinds: innumerable different kinds of use applications of

all
everything

that we call “signs”, “words”, “sentences”. And this variety is nothing ˇthat is fixed, given once and for all, but new types of language, new language games – as we may say –

come into being
spring up

and others

become
grew

obsolete and are forgotten. (We can get [a|A] rough picture of this ˇwe ˇcan get if we look at from the

transformation
changes

in which happen in mathematicsˇ seeing.)
The expression “language game” is supposed used here to emphasise here that the speaking of the [,|l]anguage is part of an activity,

part
or

of a way of living. of human beings.
      Bring the ˇTo get an idea of the enormous variety of the language games before your mind by consider these these and other examp[,|l]es,ˇ & others:
       giving [C|c]ommandsch commanding, and acting according to commands;
       giving a describ[ing|tion] ˇof an object acco[dr|rd]ing to its appearance by describing what it look like, or according to by giving it's measurements;
       producing an object according to a description (drawing);
       reporting an course of events;

making
setting up

a hypothesis and testing it;
present[ati|ing]on of the results of an experiment in tables and diagrams;

acting a play
performing in a theatre

;
singing a catch;
guessing asking riddles; & guessing them;

riddles;
       making a joke, or telling one;
       solving an example problem in applied arithmetic;
       translating from one language into another;

requesting
entreating

, thanking, swearing, greeting, praying.
– It is interesting to compare the variety of the instruments of our language and of their applicat ways they are applied their various uses – the variety of the parts of speech and of the kinds of ˇwords & of sentences – with what logicians have said about the structure of ˇour language. (And ˇIncluding the author of the Tract.atus Log.ico-phil.osophicus as well.)

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.