Sentence examples for without a verb from inspiring English sources

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And a sentence cannot be grammatically correct without a verb.

A visit to Michael's is a reminder that "parenting" was once accomplished without books and, for that matter, without a verb to describe it.

The syntactic boundaries s3 and s2 delimit "well-formed" clauses containing a verb; p3 characterises not-well-formed units, functioning like clauses but without a verb.

For example, a sentence may only have a verb such as ("completed")—or only a subject and object, without a verb such as ("That [is] my house").

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For example, one often cannot tell a noun from a verb without an understanding of the contextual meaning and at the time such an understanding seemed beyond the capacity of computers.

For example, one often cannot tell a noun from a verb without an understanding of the contextual meaning — and at the time such an understanding seemed beyond the capacity of computers.

The search returned both singular and plural nominalizations; we did not attempt to balance them, except in the case of increase(s), which required special handling since its zero derivation makes it indistinguishable from a verb without access to POS tagging.

Your social context will help determine which form is appropriate; for example, never use the informal mode with your elders, public figures, or other individuals who are commonly given public respect.[28] The informal/intimate mode just uses the root form of a verb without inflection.

It can run line after line without a main verb, or disintegrate into glossolalia ("at taps / art twilit lilac panicle / fathering rafter").

The old rules are not without reason: the lack of a verb makes it hard to understand.

After counting 37 adjectives without seeing nothing closer to a verb than the phrase"at first glance"we have given the whole project up and decided that we stumbled into an atypical morass of a sentence and that our proportion ofadjectives to verbs would probably average something like seventy-three to a hundred.

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