The Mandarin and English speakers were recorded while reading printed sentence lists.
Table 1 Test format and content of the VET Item type Task description Number of items 1) Reading Test takers read printed, numbered sentences, one at a time, in the requested order.
The author printed sample sentences for verbs to show how they should be used.These amount to vignettes of pre-Reformation life.
For how many years will Sunday papers continue to print sentences like this, from reviewer Dagmar Herzog: "The conclusion that Hitler 'was both very ordinary and completely extraordinary' is banal".
This was a card on one side of which was printed: "The sentence on the other side of this card is TRUE".
But, rather than printing out sentence after sentence of a book about his life as a professional tennis player now locked inside his most testing battle, the pump drives a concoction that aims to destroy every remnant of the cancer that invaded his body with terrible stealth.
Short paragraphs, empty pages, disconnected sentences printed alone add an expressionistic, almost filmic quality to the already stark narrative.
LeapFrog's newest device, the LeapReader, is an update of its Tag Reading System, a chunky electronic stylus that sounds out words and sentences printed in LeapFrog books.
Yet another, "Day" (2003), is a faithful transcription of each sentence printed in The New York Times on Sept. 1, 2000.
Here is an aggressively ordinary English sentence, printed as prose: "The trees wave but, except to say 'wind — up again,' this means nothing".
