Look at one person or a group of people for one sentence's or one concept's worth of time, she said.
Strawson's distinction between a sentence's having a meaning and the speech act performed by its use on an occasion is clearly sound and important.
She or Her? Silently, try this test: Listen to your sentence with only the sentence's beginning name or pronoun, as well as only one other pronoun.
It's possible, if unlikely, that "he" in the third line is the sentence's subject, and that "he wanted out of the room" means he wanted to get out of it.
That sentence's end: "about a penny and a half apiece".
It would be hard to find a better summation of the publication's philosophy than that sentence's first word.
But the question is: In changing the sentence's syntax, are we also changing its logic, its "mystical" deeper meaning?
But the sentence's continuation seemed to carry a veiled threat: "We want you to do it responsibly, by adhering to our Acceptable Ads guidelines".
If you're not thrown by the Scots usage of "went messages" to mean "got the groceries," you'll still struggle to find the sentence's center of gravity.
He justifies the sentence's length by remembering that the teachers who taught him not to write long sentences, were often wrong.
The judge drew outrage last month over the sentence's leniency and comments he made that appeared to pin some of the blame on Ms. Moralez.
