Sentence examples for control over language from inspiring English sources
All the children are struggling for control over their own lives, but it's hard to believe they have such control over language.
As far as teaching creative writing goes, you can't teach boring people to be more interesting, I do believe that, but you can help people to have more control over language and to express themselves in a better way.
A robust poetry in terms of its absolute control over language, especially on the level of the sentence, it is also strangely delicate, never going beyond territories in which it retains complete mastery.
His fiction is extremely funny and absolutely serious, his control over language and character so assured that the array of first-person narrators in these dozen stories — combat grunts, a desk-bound officer, a beleaguered State Department official, a Marine chaplain — are all distinct and persuasive.
The 6,400 Nisga'a gained ownership of almost 2,000 square km (770 square miles) in the Nass valley, plus powers of self-government comparable to a municipality, some control over language and cultural issues, ownership of forestry and mineral resources, a share of the fisheries and a C$190m (then worth $280m) development fund.
A case report on an Italian engineer (L1 Friulian, L2 Italian) provides a special case demonstrating the loss of control over language choice [ 35].
This constant exertion of control over languages leads to an overall enhancement of executive control processes (Bialystok, 2001), resulting in better performance (i.e. less interference) for bilinguals than monolinguals on the Stroop and other conflict tasks.
It's hard to decide which is more remarkable - his insight into the psychology of a 19th-century Englishwoman or his control over the language of her thoughts.
I never played in goal because I wasn't really tall enough and always had enough control over the language to talk myself into the centre-forward berth.
