Sentence examples for correct adjective from inspiring English sources

It is hard to see how heavy could possibly be the correct adjective here, or how any adjective could be.

He pauses while he considers the correct adjective, 'Nice.' Understated to the last, unlike the journalists who have written about him over the past half a century.

The only scary thing about it, in fact, is not the fault of the Gladwin brothers at all: I am here with the editor of this magazine; a man who has the power to sack me in an instant if I don't regularly summon the correct adjective to described the foodstuff before me.

Neither Oscar Hammerstein nor Stephen Sondheim nor any other Golden Age lyricist you might mention would ever rhyme "office" with "nauseous --especially sinauseous --especiallytive is 'nauseous --especially

As an example, the sentence Los enemigos[masc.] agresivos[masc.] luchan (literally: The enemies[masc.] aggressive[masc.] fight) could be violated syntactically by modifying the gender of the adjective (agresivas[fem.]), and semantically by replacing the correct adjective by an inappropriate one (opacos[masc.] = opaque[masc.]).

For within-sentence violations we expected the usual N400 and P600 components to semantically incorrect relative to correct adjectives and a LAN and a P600 to syntactically incorrect relative to correct adjectives.

The hapless professor used the article an, hearing the correct answer, adjective, in his head.

In order to understand this effect it is important to remember that the manipulation of sentence correctness (correct syntactic relationship between noun and adjective within the sentence) causes converse relationships between the within-sentence noun and the extraneous adjective.

As can be seen in Figure 5, in late intervals these interactions are due to smaller frontal positivities to syntactically correct and matching adjectives relative to all other conditions (with one violation or mismatch, respectively, or a double violation).

Mean RTs relative to the onset of the visual adjective in correct sentences were 1581 and 1587 ms when the auditory adjective of Task 2 semantically matched or mismatched, respectively.

In all versions of the sentences, the critical words (the adjectives) were of comparable familiarity (19 per million), according to the "Lexico Informatizado del Español" (LEXESP [35]), and number of letters (Ms = 7.4, for correct and syntactically anomalous adjectives, and 7.5 for the semantically anomalous adjectives).