"phrase" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It forms verbal phrases that are then used as nouns: Lying in bed is my favorite hobby.
- Mr. Anderson is plain, natural, frank, and he responds with spontaneity to the shape and sense of a verbal phrase.
- There seem to be three verbal phrases here, which add to something like Sorry, I must go soon.
- But if a sentence containing an atelic verbal phrase is embedded within the context of a past time narrative, it would be interpreted as past.
- It is derived from a finite verbal phrase, the verbal inflection still visible at the juncture of the compound members.
- The songs stick to certain trademarks: short melody lines and verbal phrases, big beat, active guitar.
- Physical and verbal phrases repeat, but they are never quite the same.
- It is often used to test the constituency of a verbal phrase but can also be applied to other phrases:
- It's: a contraction of the verbal phrase It is or It has.
- By an inversion you emphasize a component of the sentence: an adverbial phrase, a predicative or an object, or even an inner verbal phrase.
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