The phrase "command of vocabulary" is correct and it is often used in written English.
For example: "I was very impressed with Sue's command of vocabulary during the presentation."
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.
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.
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.
The two-horn frontline looks especially interesting: Mr. Chancey, one of jazz's rare French hornists, and the tenor saxophonist Aaron Stewart, whose command of the new jazz vocabularies encompasses the familiar and the experimental.
I had command of a precise and specialized vocabulary that I could summon more or less at will.
Tempting because Lancaster commands the vocabulary of the coaching manual, and that can sound suspiciously clever at times.
