Sentence examples for distinctive syntax from inspiring English sources

In a 1977 self-interview for Ms., she wrote, with her distinctive syntax, which visualized black English, "sometimes a langston hughes poem... waz the only safe place I cd find".

That is Gertrude Stein, in case the distinctive syntax had not clued you in, musing as only this bemusing modernist could muse, in an essay about the theater titled "Plays".

I left his distinctive syntax intact, and at his request, his responses are in all caps.

They share a distinctive clipped syntax, quirky staccato jumps, a first-person swagger, a welcome absence of academic language, a would-be player's eagerness and, most of all, a stone certainty.

He went so far as to imitate Mr. Daley's speech patterns, with a distinctive grammar and syntax and a seeming preference for commas over periods in his orations.

Indeed, the pieces in "The Age of Wire and String" (1995) function more like prose poems than stories; their emotional impact is derived from their distinctive diction and syntax.

Selection and use of proximate or obviative forms is a distinctive aspect of Ottawa syntax that indicates the relative discourse prominence of noun phrases containing third persons; it does not have a direct analogue in English grammar.

To distinguish among neighbours and strangers or among different neighbours, several cues have been suggested to be used by songbirds [3]: (1) repertoire composition (phonology); (2) order of production of repertoire components (syllable types or song types, i.e. syntax); (3) distinctive 'voice' characteristics and/or subtle differences in the song types versions of each individual [30], [31].

He's such a distinctive singer, with his own syntax and emphasis and tone, and that mysterious patois; I loved his work enough to love him, too.

The dialect of the district of Palakkad in Kerala has a large number of Malayalam loanwords, has been influenced by Malayalam's syntax and also has a distinctive Malayalam accent.

The syntax and particularly the diction of later Middle English alliterative verse were also distinctive, and the search for alliterating phrases and constructions led to the extensive use of archaic, technical, and dialectal words.