Sentences with phrase «fewer syllables»

Trimble says to avoid using However, because But «has two fewer syllables and takes no comma, so it's a cleaner, punchier transition word — especially at the head of a paragraph, where it's peerless.»

(He said he prefers my 1992 «Anthrocene» proposal — fewer syllables, simpler.)

This may not be the case if the longer words and words with more syllables are familiar to your audience and the shorter words and words with fewer syllables are new to them.

Prime Number — If you're going to use words with fewer syllables try to spell them correctly.

The sentences are broken up, the lines never more than a few syllables long, the complex words sometimes spelled phonetically and broken into syllables.

I'll try to use words with few syllables.

Coryell's system allowed for a three - digit tag to be added on the end of each formation, giving three receivers their assignments in just a few syllables, rather than a long string of words.

If you're working out hard and intensely, you should only be able to have the strength to say a few syllables before catching your breath.

So I was lucky to get a few syllables on the subject... and I quote...

Thor's home planet, Asgard, is due to be zeroed out in Ragnarok, which is the apocalypse with one fewer syllable.

He is that uncle who is a few syllables beyond eccentric, who does not quite follow the rules of appropriate conduct.

«Hey Google» replaces the more awkward «OK Google», with one fewer syllable and a more natural, conversational tone.

Not exact matches

But in October, he announced that Walgreens Boots Alliance was buying, for $ 17.2 billion, Rite Aid (or as he pronounces it, with a rolling «r» and a few extra syllables, «Rrrrrrriiiiite Aiiiiide»).

These contradictory perspectives show that before deciding whether to commit a few years of your life to reading obscure journals full of six - syllable words, the question has to be asked: Is grad school worth it?

Our singing version is a frequently - requested lullaby set to the tune of Brahm's Lullaby with a few more lyrics to make the syllables come out right.

Over the next few months, he will start to stand holding on to things, pull to a stand, jabber and combine syllables, crawl and transfer things from hand to hand.

Remember how just a few years ago single - syllable names were all the... [Read more...]

Read part of the rhyme («Round and round the haystack»), then ask your child to clap the syllables or play them on a rhythm instrument (demonstrate this the first few times).

A few will even add another syllable or two, making their sounds more complex.

Newborns who first heard 18 syllables and afterward six syllables had the reverse setup, and were expected to associate «fewer» with «left.»

That suggests they were paying attention to the number of syllables and mapping them accordingly: «fewer» to the left and «more» to the right, the researchers report today in Current Biology.

A young person processes about 8 to 10 auditory samples per syllable; an 80 - year - old processes fewer than 2 samples per syllable.

A syllable, for example, takes place over a quarter of a second, while a sentence unfolds over a few seconds.

As a result, not a single word or even a single syllable can be typed with the right hand alone (no, grr isn't a word), and only a few words can be typed with the left hand alone.

The impulses in the RA coincided with individual notes, each lasting just a few hundredths of a second, while the signature firing pattern from the HVc corresponded to a syllable, or group of notes, lasting in the range of a quarter of a second.

And often it can feel as if Earl Sweatshirt is rapping his dense syllabic tumbles with his back facing the microphone, which is perplexing, since few rappers love the sound of sticky syllables as much as he does.

After repeating what Zhao has already said with a few pauses in between, Ozai receives an emphatic assertion of what both have now firmly stated in a «yes» that somehow makes the word three syllables long.

The filmmaker's characters were once loquacious and given to summarizing themes aloud, but now they speak in coiled rhetoric that compresses years of longing and bitterness into a few poetic syllables, which are delivered by actors in a fashion that emphasizes the alien inadequacy of words.

A few of these topics include grammar, spelling, reading comprehension, lowercase / uppercase letters, abc order, beginning / middle / ending sounds, r controlled words, digraphs, diphthongs, synonyms / antonyms, pronoun / noun, adjective / adverb, rhyming words, syllables, and many more.

-LSB-...] Distilling experience into a few pages or, in some cases a few paragraphs, forces writers to pay close attention to every loaded conversation, every cruel action, every tender gesture, and every last syllable in every single word.

Gunning states that books that are popular best sellers use short sentences and use very few words of three syllables or more.

Those measures, however, rely entirely on two structural features — syllables per word and words per sentence.48 As we describe below, we have adopted a comprehensive approach to measuring readability by taking fifty different readability measures and then using factor analysis to create an index based on the most reliable set of measures.49 The next section discusses the few prior studies of the relationship between readability and case outcome.

Think â $ «a few pleasant words might actually warm up your audience, soften the blow of bad news, or even just hearken to the days when we werenâ $ ™ t all single - syllable corporate jarheads.

In recent translations, all slimes have a certain verbal tic of replacing certain words and syllables with similar, «slimier» ones, such as saying goo instead of good, gooman instead of human, and slime instead of time, to give just a few (or goo) examples.