Sentence examples for verbal uses from inspiring English sources

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Is 'speak' the right way to translate these verbal uses of dao?

In English, for the same verb root, it is the Stimulus that occupies the subject position in the unmarked active form, for both adjectival and verbal uses, as in a simple contrast below: (67) The active vs. passive contrast in English:   a.

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Avoid this jargony verbal use of "reference".

The Baghdad briefer's verbal use of "highest levels" went beyond what the intelligence community had suggested.

In other words, the English verbal use is semantically similar to the adjectival use.

But a degree marker is not obligatory with stative EPs, if the verbal use is to be stressed14.

The Chinese verbal use, is more accurately translated normatively as "to guide", "to recommend, advocate, acknowledge, endorse", etc.

To stress on a verbal use, the examples with a transitive EP (such as 羨慕 xianmu "envy" in 15 and others in 17b, 19b) may occur without the degree marker 很 hen.

Inchoative states or type A verbs are externally caused, as they involve a higher degree of volitional control with verbal use and more overt mention of an externally present cause.

We believe that the simple verbal use of the word pain and behavioral response sufficed and have acknowledged and managed her report of pain as such.

Instead, the repetition of "on many sides", a characteristic Trump verbal tic used for emphasis.

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