Sentence examples for telling verb from inspiring English sources

At a Republican fund-raiser in Denver on Tuesday night, Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton, who spoke just before Mr. Bush, chose a telling verb to describe her recent departure from the nation's capital.

How can you tell which verb belongs to what class?

Since the annotators are tested for the agreement of relation identification, they are told which verb-pair is the analyzed target.

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, with a degree in history, but still has trouble telling nouns from verbs.

The verb is telling, reminding us that strategic exposure is all part of the Versace gameplan.

Fears that small business will be hurt are "needless" and are being "fomented" (the choice of verb is telling) by presumably sinister opponents.

For example, in the sentence "Jane threw out the trash," the word "Jane" is dependent on "threw"—it modifies the verb by telling us who was doing the throwing, just as we need "trash" to know what was thrown, and "out" to know where the trash went.

Both sorts are evident in "Among English Verbs": Among English verbs to die is oddest in its eagerness to be dead, immodest in its haste to be told – a verb alchemical in the head: one speck of its gold and a whole life's lead.

At home, I was the purveyor of linguistic righteousness, correcting my family's pronunciation and verb usage, implicitly telling them that if my language wasn't good enough, neither was theirs.

( To understand better my point? No; that sounds awkward. To understand my point better? Not bad, but not as strong as having the better ahead of the understand. Inconsistent tense structureis next on the Sotomayor hit list. Tenses of verbs tell the general time that action takes place. When you have two verbs in the same sentence, they should not fight each other's timing.

The Verb is a newswire telling the stories that matter.