Sentence examples for voice construction from inspiring English sources

In this study, I propose that fanfiction discourse creates a social space that helps shape the voice construction of the L2 writer.

In order to understand how the L2 writer's multiple social positions within fanfiction discourse affect voice construction, I analyze a popular online culture-based writing website, <www.fanfiction.net>.

We should note how the virtually passive voice in this tweet hides the one performing the action, which is exactly what passive voice constructions can do.

Not only is the prose stilted and stuffy, but its authors never met a passive-voice construction they didn't like.

"We may not have the best voices," a construction supervisor said with a laugh.

Other voice-related constructions occurring in Mayan languages are the following: mediopassive, incorporational (incorporating a direct object into the verb), instrumental (promoting the instrument to object position) and referential (a kind of applicative promoting an indirect argument such as a benefactive or recipient to the object position).

As she hurled herself into a cab, trailing perfume and hat ribbons, she heard a deep booming voice from the construction site.

Members of Nevada's congressional delegation are attempting to ensure states have a voice in the construction of nuclear waste repositories.

"Seek," a collection of his forays into nonfiction, reads like an extended experiment -- short and long pieces of journalism and memoir whose subjects range from wars in Africa to cards at his local bar, where the tense is usually past but occasionally present and sometimes both, and where the voice seems continually under construction.

Apparently, per China Daily at least, the television set will have an aluminum construction, Siri voice controls and FaceTime video calling.

Well, our hero is Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt), a construction worker who could not be more contented.