Mr. Phipps was in the act of dashing off a message to his office asking for word of the wife he'd left behind when the radio man came up with the theory, which later proved sound, that this was Mrs. Phipps' way of saying that she missed Mr. Phipps.
In the area of vocabulary questions, many studies have been done, for instance, generation of cloze questions1 for completing a sentence and questions asking for word collocation, synonyms, antonyms, and definitions (Brown et al. 2005).
Last week, we asked for words.
When one of them asked for words of wisdom, I simply said, "Keep your eyes open".
Well, we always ask for words, but this time we asked for new words: a coinage of the reader's invention.
Those that Terrence Higgins Trust polled were asked for words, unprompted, that they had heard used to describe their health condition.
It needs to ask for words.
Children's attention to conventionality and contrast is demonstrated in their language use, even before the age of 2 years; they direct their early words towards adult targets, repair mispronunciations quickly if possible, ask for words to relate to the world around them, and maintain contrast in their own word use.
When asked for words of wisdom for aspiring "Idol" contestants, she said, "I really did not know myself when I was on that show, as a musician, and that was a big challenge for me coming off the show, because I kind of wanted to be an actress..
I wanted to call the office to ask for word of the New York workers, but also didn't want to in case the news was bad, so I kept checking the website instead.
