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The phrase "verbal construction" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing the formation or structure of phrases or sentences in language. Example: "The verbal construction in this sentence highlights the importance of clarity and precision in communication."
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This was a verbal construction just about coherent while the British empire lasted, but no longer.
However, the distinction between these processes is often not as clearly expressed as the above example, which can make it difficult for SFL analysts to allocate a verbal construction to a specific type of process.
Example 1: The use of a verbal passive form in the original may not be possible in some target languages where active form is a more natural verbal construction.
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Periphrastic verbal constructions of various sorts are also found in a number of other Semitic languages.
Her thinking was clear though quite complicated, but she had trouble finding the verbal constructions that would convey that clarity.
In many Niger-Congo languages a number of verbal constructions that share the same subject and the same tense/aspect/polarity features follow one another without conjunctions.
His Dispersão (1914; "Dispersion") features exuberant images, an obsession with verbal constructions and metaphors, and experimentation with graphic design and fonts.
During the film, Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise, its subject adds to the elaborate verbal constructions he employs to downplay his transparent desire to succeed David Cameron as Prime Minister.
Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity.
This is what Auden meant when he pointed to Murray's explorations of a reassuring "here" and "there," I think: the intuition that verbal constructions are stable enough to lean upon, as sturdy as a mountain range or a grand building, and also as mysterious and surprising in their branching trails and corridors.
We also counted all the finite clauses (including ranking and embedded ones) in order to calculate the relative frequencies of verbal constructions, as opposed to absolute ones.
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