Sentence examples for silent subject from inspiring English sources

Dr. Welner, who tried to interview Mr. Mitchell in preparing his opinion but ended up spending the better part of five hours sitting across a table from his silent subject, said he became convinced that Mr. Mitchell lived in what the doctor called a "shadowy, parallel universe" of polygamous sects and factions that long ago split from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In Hornstein and Lightfoot (1987), Larson (1991), and Bowers (1993), the silent subject of a resultative or depictive is analyzed as a PRO, and its antecedent is an argument of the matrix predication.

Apparently truncated expressions such as those in 72 and 73 should also have a full-fledge clausal structure that contains a syntactic position for the negation in 72 and the silent subject in 76, for example, a function project like TP, and a position for the raised silent auxiliary in 76, for example, CP. (73) We're on the list, right?

The verb 對 dui 'right' in the internal conjunct is predicated of a silent subject, which could be either an empty pronominal pro (Zhang and Tang 张和友, 邓思颖 2011), given that Chinese is a pro-drop language, or silent THAT, in the sense of Kayne (2015).

Serum samples were also collected from three healthy BuChE silent subjects (males) from the Vysya community in India (30±5 years).

His silent, slithering subjects are more interesting than this.

However, as the wave of digital innovation transforms our landscape there is concern that our digital voice, while technically silent, is subjected to amplification and accelerated global transit.

Its index is silent on the subject.

No 10 remains silent on the subject.

But he was silent on the subject.

­Redgrave herself was understandably silent on the subject.