Sentence examples for critical verb from inspiring English sources

All sentences were third-person whose critical verb was in undefined preterit tense (English's Simple Past Tense) and was always placed as the last word of the sentence.

Event-related brain potentials were evaluated for each participant during the test phase in both conditions for 2000 ms time-locked to the onset of the critical verb with a 100 ms pre-stimulus baseline.

The latter parameter was defined as the number of occurrences, on http://www.google.co.uk, of the critical verb phrase of the sentences (e.g., "grasped the idea"; 53 917 ± 12 571 for idioms vs. 37 892 ± 13 856 for literal sentences, P > 0.05).

However, weather the compatibility effect was incremented by the lexical level of the critical verbs or from the complete sentence event remains unclear.

These effects occurred quite early after the onset of the critical action verbs (TMS was indeed delivered when the second syllable of the verb was presented).

Morphological processing of the critical sound as verb inflection led to particularly pronounced early left inferior frontal activation, whereas the same sound functioning as inflectional affix of a noun activated superior temporal cortex more strongly.

As the critical stimulus in verb contexts elicited stronger activation than in noun context, F1,16 = 4.40, P < 0.03, it appears that particularly strong inferior frontal activation observed in this study reflected the processing of grammatical features of inflectional affixes of verbs.

In addition to the role of the right cerebellar hemisphere for future processing of action verbs, a critical result of the present study was that rTMS of both right and left cerebellar hemispheres interfered with spatial-temporal mapping of state verbs and non-verbs.

So, I've decided to practice my pronunciation of present and past tense for these two verbs because I believe the tense of the verb is often critical to understanding the meaning of what you're saying.

Behavioral syntactic priming studies have shown that verb repetition is critical for syntactic priming within language comprehension (Arai et al. 2007; Tooley et al. 2009).

They begin to flesh out their noun-verb sentences with less critical words such as prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and auxiliary verbs.