Sentence examples for Command of vocabulary from inspiring English sources

Essential to that special noise is a command of vocabulary, syntax, and rhythm.

If you don't have a strong enough command of vocabulary to get your point across without being mean, you should find another job.

Each child speaks in the present tense, implying life being recorded as it unfolds, but even a superintelligent 6-year-old (and I'm not convinced that Sol is one) has an imperfect command of vocabulary and syntax — which is why authors from Henry James ("What Maisie Knew") to Alison Lurie ("Only Children") have filtered childish observations through third-person limited voices.

It does not flow.' He realised early on that he could never 'do' realism because he didn't observe 'I don't notice the colour of your eyes and if you asked me what the colour of your scarf is, I couldn't tell you.' But he also seems to lack the easy command of vocabulary that most writers take for granted he talks of 'running out of words' or not being able to find the word he wants.

Chris Eubank is wearing a heavily tailored, high-concept jacket and shirt over stonewashed jeans that appear to have been customised by Jackson Pollock, and cling like stockings from the knee down, to boots that my command of fashion vocabulary does not stretch far enough to describe.

It's refreshing to see a choreographer who, while showing a wide command of the ballet vocabulary, isn't haunted by the idioms of Balanchine and doesn't rely on high lifts or acrobatic extensions.

Like Marsalis, Hubbard had seemed to be in command of the complete vocabulary of jazz trumpet while still a teenager, from Louis Armstrong's full sound and thrilling narrative clarity, through Dizzy Gillespie's energy, to the graceful 1950s modernist Clifford Brown's mix of unflustered speed and subtly expressive warmth.

A student's command of a range of vocabulary can predict not only their academic success, but even their future job opportunities.

Robbins seldom showed a more polished command of the academic-ballet vocabulary, but the overall sensation this pas de deux leaves is one of pristine freshness, in which 19th-century Old World style becomes new again.

Sight Translation Competition (goal 1); majors will undertake a brief sight-translation in their language of chosen focus, which should allow them to demonstrate basic command of grammar, morphology, and vocabulary.

This, according to Chomsky, is implied by the existence of universal constraints on syntactic structure, in which "the poverty of the stimulus" acts as a means of accounting for the spectacular blossoming of vocabulary and syntactic command around age 2 and for the restriction of language acquisition to a "sensitive period" ending before age 10.