Sentence examples for the verbal element from inspiring English sources

And that has been largely achieved by the verbal element of his oeuvre.

Most speakers concentrate on the verbal element, treating the words as if they are the communication.

In [16], the verbal element is located in its typical, clause-initial position, whereas in [17] it is preceded by a circumstantial Adjunct in thematic position.

There is a general consensus that the typical constituent order of BH is VSO (Moshavi 2010), and Matthiessen (Matthiessen 2004) notes that in general "the verbal element of the clause is likely to be the locus of interpersonal realizations and/or to be associated with interpersonal adverbs or particles that serve as the locus of such realizations".

The verbal elements usually took the form of monologues in which the speaker (sometimes pathetic, sometimes pompous) exposed his own insecurities.

They made sure his fictional apology contained all the verbal elements of a good apology the components previous research has identified as being central to repairing relationships (see sidebar).

The texts under investigation refers to the verbal elements of relevant corporate reports and policy documents, all of which being conceptualised texts in the narrow sense as referring to spoken and written language (Leitch & Palmer, 2010; Merkl-Davies et al., 2011).

In those "double-gerundial" nouns there is always a verbal element, the element of action.

Eisner became a master of the short-story form, using every visual and verbal element to enhance the moods and emotions in his compact morality tales.

It's about the aggression of a certain way of being physically present in the world – and the Cavs man embodies this aspect of sledging as much as its verbal element.

Analytically, as a verbal element of holding/carrying, a T-function IA head starts the complex event of object transportation by bringing an object into the scene, followed by a causative event where the object travels from an individual to another.