Sentence examples for preceding subjects from inspiring English sources

The current project has focused heavily on the interpretation of pronouns relative to preceding subjects and Goal NPs, and we have not attempted to examine potential contrasts between subjects and NPs in other syntactic relations, such as direct object position, or pre-verbal objects in the 把 ba "BA" construction.

It can be posited that the presence of a pronoun in the continuation prompt favors reference to a preceding subject rather than a non-subject/Goal.

However, the presence of a pronoun provided as an initial prompt in the continuation favors interpretation of the pronoun as referencing a preceding subject.

In fact, as we observed in the preceding subject test, subjects were sometimes able to successfully adopt a strategy without being able to accurately describe what the strategy was.

The sentence completion task showed that participants used pronouns provided in the prompts to reference elements in preceding subject positions at a rate of nearly 80%%, and linked pronouns to non-subjects much less frequently.

What this first experiment therefore shows is a very significant asymmetry in the spontaneous interpretation of pronouns, and speakers appear to very strongly favor linking the interpretation of a pronoun to a preceding subject in Chinese6.

Furthermore, we excluded patients who had undergone pharmacological prophylactic treatment for headache in the 6 months preceding the study, subjects with a frequency of headache lower than one every two months and patients with primary headache attack in progress.

A general high rate of use of pronouns to refer to subjects rather than other grammatical relations was independently attested in Experiment 1, with nearly 80%% of the pronouns in S2 continuations being linked to NPs in the preceding sentences' subject position.

For each pollutant concentration, we considered a range of short-term and subchronic exposure windows preceding each subject's examination, including: 4 hr, 24 hr (lag 0), previous day (lag 1), and 3, 7, 14, and 28-day moving averages.

However, instead of the dominant bromine-containing species that were expected at the TX site, relatively low concentrations of BDCM, DBCM, and bromoform were found, probably due to heavy rains in the area during the week preceding the subject activities in the home, which diluted the bromide concentration in the raw water.

In a prospective study based on the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, self-reported use of aspirin during the 30-day period preceding a subject's recruitment into the cohort was associated with a significant reduction in lung cancer incidence compared with nonuse (Schreinemachers and Everson, 1994).