The phrase
"middle of a sentence" refers to the point in time when one is speaking or writing, but has not yet finished expressing their complete thought.
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If you have an idea while the other person is talking, don't wait for him or her to finish: bust right in and interrupt in
the middle of a sentence.»
There are two places in spontaneous speech where filler words commonly appear, Cohen explains: at the beginning (e.g. um, uh, so) and in
the middle of a sentence (e.g. like, you know what I mean).
Of the two, filler words located in
the middle of a sentence — also known as discourse markers — are not as noticeable, and are not as readily perceived as a filler word, than those in the front and tail end of a thought.
Usually, while the person is praying out loud, they will inject these words at the beginning of every sentence, and sometimes right in
the middle of a sentence.
At one point, right in
the middle of a sentence he paused, said «Excuse me» and pulled out his radio.
(I accidentally typed «pasta» in
the middle of that sentence, if that gives you any insight into my mind right now).
I looked over at Scott and he started to sob in
the middle of a sentence.
For example, your toddler might repeat a word several times in
the middle of a sentence as a way of holding your attention as she formulates the rest of her thought.
I was in
the middle of a sentence and I wanted to reference how old I am but I just blanked.
He still carries the habits of a scientist, pausing in
the middle of sentences to reconsider or rephrase what he was about to say, and shying away from making authoritative statements about anything he hasn't examined personally.
It also seemed like several times quotes from Dr. Mercola (who promotes eating quality meats) were cut off in
the middle of a sentence or though, and it made me wonder if that is what had been edited out.
Teller is exceptionally natural and Hill is exceptionally unnatural, sporting a high - pitched exhalation for a laugh and vacillating between Seth Rogen and Jared Leto, sometimes in
the middle of a sentence.
And we always know when it is Margo because she's so rebellious and nonconformist, she throws in random capital letters in her words, because, «the rules of capitalization are so unfair to the words in
the middle of a sentence.»
Cut to her in
the middle of his sentence — no, use the take where she was reacting to something else, nobody will know.
Remind students that the standard punctuation for a conjunctive adverb in
the middle of a sentence is to use a semicolon before it and a comma after it.
A line editor makes sure the green shirt your character was wearing on page 3 is still green on page 5 and stops you from suddenly jerking from past tense to present tense in
the middle of a sentence.
When you convert to PDF, you can add page breaks in random spots, headers, and footers inside your main body of text and add the end of paragraphs in
the middle of a sentence.
If he had to read 20 pages, he would not turn to page 21 even if he were in
the middle of a sentence.
3) Never FINISH a writing session by finishing off a scene — The author suggests trying to stop in
the middle of a sentence.
Sometimes, you need to pause your audiobook — and that may happen in
the middle of a sentence.
The problem is that when an ebook designer takes your book and converts it into HTML (since ebooks are just self - contained web pages), those little adjustments lose their meaning and are treated for what they are: spaces in the middle of words or paragraph breaks in
the middle of sentences.
The experience disrupted by the fact that we now sometimes are befuddled by where paragraphs end and begin, sometimes having to look over the fact that there is a page number or book title in
the middle of a sentence can, and will, change how we feel about the book.
I agree with # 27, even though it looks like his Caps Lock key broke in
the middle of his sentence.
The issue in ACIII is less about having two fridges than having a fridge shown to you, then ten hours after you're into the game, somebody name drops a second fridge in
the middle of a sentence.
Is it me or does this post's text start in
the middle of a sentence?
In fact, given Judith's liking for putting question marks in
the middle of sentences, I'd say «questioner» is a much more appropriate term.
While the latter is used in the UK, where PerfectIt originated, the former is correct in the U.S. I also caught one mistake: In the context of a sentence, it suggested using the full word «versus» in place of the abbreviation «vs.» I accepted this, but then I almost missed that PerfectIt failed to remove the period that followed the abbreviation, leaving an inappropriate period in
the middle of the sentence.
If you want to stop Alexa in
the middle of a sentence, you usually have to interrupt with some kind of cumbersome voice command, then hope that the program hears you and interprets you correctly — even if other people are shouting at the same time.
Often, random words capitalize in
the middle of sentences, and I can't seem to be able to train it to say «lol» without caps.
Two common errors are capitalizing common nouns in
the middle of a sentence and using apostrophes to form plural words.
I work in the tech sector and a lot of words have odd capitalizations, but I've noticed in the last few years that candidates are just randomly capitalizing words in
the middle of sentences.
Or they interrupt him / her in
the middle of the sentence.
The woman stopped immediately, in
the middle of her sentence.