Sentence examples for express an event from inspiring English sources

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Consequently, expressions such as (73a) are considered non-congruent when they are designed to express an event.

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There must be evidence for this determination and concerning BREXIT, it is clear from the corpus that it is a nominal form which is being used to express an event-oriented meaning.

The composer, born in 1931, confronted both the impossibility of expressing an event like the destruction of Hiroshima artistically and the impossibility of not doing so.

Although 'Brexit' clearly expresses an event (motion) meaning, as a nominalization, it also expresses nominal meaning.

This clearly expresses an event-oriented meaning but while exit can be seen as a nominalization, as will be discussed below, the lexeme BREXIT is not a nominalization in the strictest sense since it is formed by an adjective-noun blend rather than the more typical deverbal nominal transpositions (i.e. the nominal is formed without recourse to non-nominal meanings or items, cf. Mackenzie 2007).

Activities (e.g. run in He ran toward the school) express an ongoing event which has internal change and duration, but has no necessary temporal endpoint.

Only once does she express an opinion – an event so startling that Scout remarks on it.

Since in serial verb construction and discourse construction we observe the same difficulty in recognizing semantic relations between serial events, we adopt a broad sense of CPCs to include the different syntactic structures commonly used in Chinese languages to express a complex event which shares an identical topic.

While it is clear that human language can simultaneously refer to external events and express an individual's feelings about those events (e.g. "Fire!" vs. "Fire?"), questions remain about the nature of reference in animal communication, and whether it is the same or different from how linguistic expressions refer.

Clarke (1999) points out that Newfoundland Vernacular English generally expresses a habitual event (not in the past) with the suffix -s on a verb stem (e.g. I gets sick when I takes aspirin).

That personal opinion, expressed at an event at M.I.T., was that the treatment of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of giving classified files to WikiLeaks, was "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid".

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