However, there is something further which, across the variations in their specific lexico-grammatical design, these designs tend to have in common – that is, that they are variations of equivocal forms of invitation (in contrast to grammatically 'assertive' forms); that is there is an uncertainty, a tentativeness in asking, amounting to a kind of cautiousness.
Though the book has a genteel tone and its chapter headings take the form of invitations ("Please Come to a Private Memorial Service for Jeffrey Finelli" says one), it makes a bare-knuckled assault on the kind of arriviste culture vulture who can invite visitors to tour her pricey, noxious collection by saying that "everything in this apartment is something".
The envelopes with bids will be opened at 15:15 the same day as stipulated in the form of invitation to tender annexed.
In explaining "our" peccadilloes to my female friend, I was forced to face what I and other men dedicated to the cultivation of their online lives have become: we are shy people lashing out at perceived threats, be it mildly in the form of refusing invitations or virulently in the form of online retribution.
They stand, in other words, less as justifications for their authors' existential and political commitments than as themselves a form of politics: invitations to others to see things as the author sees them, so that the author's commitment to going on in a certain way will come to be shared.
There appears to be a preference for word-of-mouth communications about volunteering opportunities, especially in the form of direct invitations to assist with specific tasks [ 44- 46].
Summarize the interview in the form of an invitation for your peers to visit the garden.
They are written in the form of an invitation, which asks one to come and join "the dance of life".
The Grace of Whomever had handed me a lottery ticket in the form of an invitation to study at the legendary, preposterously intimidating Curtis Institute of Music.
There was no means to test reliability of this answer; therefore it is possible that some older people may have misunderstood the invitation as an invitation to other forms of home visits such as home help services, thus giving a risk for misclassification.
