Sentence examples for incomplete phrases from inspiring English sources

Basden mines Google for some choice comedy nuggets, entering incomplete phrases like "Is it OK to" and "Elton John is", then marvelling at the results.

Coincidentally, neither of these speakers showed incomplete phrases (non-sequitors) or revisions (change of one utterance by another) in these extracts.

The signs Johnson et al. (1959) used were: 1) interjections (which includes filled pauses); 2) word repetitions; 3) phrase repetitions; 4) part-word repetitions; 5) prolongations; 6) broken words; 7) incomplete phrases (sometimes called abandonments); and 8) revisions.

Here are some of the most common grammar mistakes: Sentence fragments.[10] Fragments are incomplete phrases that cannot stand alone as a sentence because they are missing either a verb, a noun, or a complete thought.

When we looked in detail at the incorrect phenotypes, we found several causes of error: (i) Incomplete phrases, e.g. the other 50, slow progression and unusually long.

At one point, Mr Incedal comments to another man, Mounir Rarmoul-Bouhadjar, about the types of weapons being fired, adding the incomplete phrase "we used that".

There are several grammatical errors (e.g. in the Abstract "such that absent cortex" is an incomplete phrase to end the sentence) which should be addressed, and I suggest the article is proof read again to ensure it reads how a published manuscript should do.

Ordinary speech is full of ungrammatical constructions (constructions that may even be acknowledged to be ungrammatical by the speaker herself), incomplete sentences or phrases, metaphors, neologisms, jokes, puns and all manner of phenomena that cannot be met simply by the application to utterances of a pre-existing theory for the language being spoken.

Tebow also tried to trademark the phrase "incomplete pass".

3) The manuscript needs to be edited heavily for typographical errors, awkward phrasing, incomplete experimental methods and claims that exceed the data.

Though the pedant in me can point out which "Divertimento No. 15" dancers have incomplete turnout or brittle phrasing or unyielding torsos, what shone most in this performance — not least in those transfers of weight — was happy pride in work well done.