Sentence examples for conversational sentences from inspiring English sources

Powers's writing background is in television and film, and his fragmented, conversational sentences often fall flat from overuse.

King anatomises the British political system with appealing certainty – a quick chapter on ministers, a chapter on the media, and so on – but sometimes his brief, conversational sentences are an awkward mix of media-ready soundbites and lofty generalisations.

If you want to get something done with a computer, it turns out, there are better ways to do it than laboriously type out conversational sentences to be read by a programme with a shaky grasp of the language and a gratingly affected sense of humour.

Instead of trying to brainstorm keywords, for example, customers can simply enter conversational sentences describing what they want to order.

The interviewer used an interview guide containing a list of sequenced key questions in conversational sentences, including topics about: the RA training course, licensing process, equipment acquisition, frequency of equipment use, factors influencing RA practice, and level of satisfaction with RA.

No one outside the corporate EVP team is going to say "employee value proposition" in a conversational sentence.

A conversational sentence implicature is not part of the meaning of the sentence used, even when it is conventionally used with that implicature.

It is plausible that conversational sentence implicatures arose in much the same way idioms do.[48] "Kicked the bucket" started life when speakers used it as a metaphor to implicate that someone died.

Once the community of signers reached a critical mass, the language started becoming more complex: People in the first generation could link words, but not in consistently meaningful ways, whereas people in the second and third generations had full systems for marking complex sentences, conversational asides, and clauses, as Sandler reported in Gesture in 2012.

But in learning to string them together to produce larger units like sentences, conversational contributions, and narratives, we demonstrate our need to be sure the people we're talking to can understand what and why we're communicating.

And the data is summarized in a single sentence of conversational English.