Sentence examples for competent speaker from inspiring English sources

She has a reputation as a competent speaker and media performer but has occasionally made gaffes.

Mr Gore is clever; he is obsessively diligent; he is a competent speaker, if a bit stiff.

The head of the House Democratic caucus is by all accounts a nice guy, and he might have made a competent speaker of the House.

According to Saussure, any language is structured in the sense that its elements are interrelated in nonarbitrary, regular, rule-bound ways; a competent speaker of the language largely follows these rules without being aware of doing so.

He may play up his loyalty to the trade unions, but the truth is that businesses contribute far more to his campaign coffers than unions ever will.Mr Gephardt is clever; he is obsessively diligent; he is a competent speaker, if a bit stiff.

For instance, Crispin Wright and Stewart Shapiro say a competent speaker can faultlessly classify the borderline case as a positive instance while another competent speaker can faultlessly classify the case as a negative instance.

Other test providers have said they use human assessors to determine if people are competent speakers of English.

In these computational experiments an agent learns to predict the context-dependent effects of utterances by interacting with other agents that are already competent speakers.

This is more than the 100 "competent speakers" of Manx (spoken on the Isle of Man) but fewer than the 1,700 speakers of Jerriais (spoken in Jersey).

among lexical items as currently used by competent speakers.

The audience recognizes that other competent speakers could describe the borderline case differently.