Statements and Sentences

A statement is a syntactically valid combination of words and symbols beginning with a COBOL verb.

A sentence consists of one or more statements and is terminated by a period followed by a space.

Statements are of the following types:

1. Conditional statements.
2. COBOL system-directing statements.
3. Imperative statements.
4.  Delimited scope statements.

There are three types of sentences:

1. Conditional sentences.
2. COBOL system-directing sentences.
3. Imperative sentences.