Sentence examples for class of words from inspiring English sources

And all suggestions for invented new gender-neutral pronouns have failed: pronouns (unlike nouns and verbs) are a "closed class" of words, almost never admitting new members.

Then there were the inevitable questions, as society's norms of discourse shifted, about what class of words, if any, to banish.

A separate class of words aligns the vocabulary of sequential time with that of intensity, so repetition of the same activity again and again (to a European) is rather the intensification of a single activity.

Another class of words, called deśya (or deśī) 'belonging to the area, country,' includes items that the grammarians cannot derive easily from Sanskrit and that are supposed to have been in use in particular areas from early times.

To his credit, Don Lemon, a CNN host known for gaffes, argued cogently that when the word is newsworthy, "nigger" should be uttered in full.A last class of words, though not quite as powerful, fill out the picture.

Anglo-Indians had their own vocabulary, not a million miles from some of the entries in Hobson-Jobson, so I had always thought of the term as belonging to the same class of words as chokra-boy (a young male servant or ne'er-do-well), and baba-log (the word Anglo-Indians used of their children when talking to their nannies).

In any case, the stringency of the law and its prominent application suggest the fear, on the part of France's political class, of word inciting deed, which is, in itself, quite a reflection of the passions being kept below the boiling point there.

Verbs are a class of word in Wagiman which contains fewer than 50 members.

Spaced (k,l -seeds are a special class of word filters with length l and the selectivity of a k-mer (Ilie and Ilie,l -seedsaret al., 2002; Mak and Benspecial09).

In some way, whether by cognitive processes, associative processes, by the inherent properties of different types of words themselves, or by the combination of all three mechanisms, Chaser learned, as do children, to respond appropriately to different classes of words".

His questions about words and classes of words are not unlike those of Priscian (fl. 500 530) and other grammarians.