Sentences with phrase «of adjectives at»

Not exact matches

, published in Granta, the novelist Richard Ford mentioned his pleasure at a critic's «singling out for approval my choice of adjectives, which seemed to him surprising and expansive and of benefit to the story».

(Today we have become conscious of the need to be somewhat reserved in our using the adjective «old» to refer to books which are not at all obsolete either for Jews or for Christians.)

The Leibnizian view stumbles in viewing self - identity as merely numerical oneness, with at most a plurality of qualities, a single noun with many adjectives (LP 120).

We may reconstruct the adjectives and phrases used to describe him both at the cocktail parties of the Corinthian elite (if the latter was aware of him at all) and in the pubs where his petit - bourgeois clientele would gather: «fundamentalist,» «simplistic,» «compulsive - neurotic,» «asking too much of sensible people,» «never listening to the other side of an argument,» «perhaps a little crazy» — in sum, some thing of a disagreeable fanatic.

We can never look directly at them, for they are bodiless and featureless and footless, but we grasp all other things by their means, and in handling the real world we should be stricken with helplessness in just so far forth as we might lose these mental objects, these adjectives and adverbs and predicates and heads of classification and conception.

This meaningfulness to the observer is at the root of all descriptions of an object, including adjectives such as objective, publicly compelling, predictable, etc..

In unfolding it, in order to show his own cleverness and reading, and satisfy itching ears, he proceeded with a new method, expounding letters, syllables and proposition, the harmony of noun and verb, and that of noun substantive, and noun adjective... At last he... demonstrated the whole Trinity to be represented by these first rudiments of grammar, as clearly and plainly as it was possible for a mathematician to draw a triangle in the sand.»

You probably have some sort of basic understanding about what whey protein is, but how good are you at deciphering all the other adjectives that get tacked onto the tub?

His article on the Legends of Golf (Where Life Begins at 50, May 5) exemplifies Jenkins» unique and humorous style, not to mention the single largest collection of adjectives ever found in a weekly sports magazine.

These fathers reveal significantly greater stress and depression scores than fathers of full - term infants, and lower involvement rates (Rimmerman & Sheran, 2001); and, like the fathers (and mothers) of cesarian babies, use significantly more negative adjectives to describe their babies at six weeks of age (Greenhalg et al, 2000).

At what level does that bias make them lose the adjective of «reputable»?

As he explained in a session today at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science), some of these variations are predictable: The plural pronoun «yinz» (as in, «I'll see yinz later») and the adjective «hella» («That movie was hella long») occur in tight clumps around Pittsburgh and around northern California, respectively.

«Serious» is an adjective much better applied to the work of Steven Rose, professor of biology at the Open University.

hypervelocity An adjective for stars that move across space at unusual speed — enough speed, in fact, that they can escape the gravitational hold of their parent galaxy.

At any point, I've felt frustrated, tired, stressed, over-extended, low, and a bunch of other adjectives you use when everything feels difficult.

Pictures don't do justice to how beautiful (I can't think of more adjectives for... really... really HOT) my wife looked at the wedding last night.

In the 15th century, the adjective Cesky (meaning Czech... more hours of «free time» (usually offered by the river line at the end of the guided tour) in the castle complex, one place to visit is the well - preserved Baroque Theater, dating to the...

I do not want to start off with a bunch of adjectives I am sure you have looked at hundreds of profiles that look all the same just about.

Review: The (adjective)(noun) part (number) Wow I just have to say I spent all (measure of time) staring at my (electric device) wondering what I was going to say about this movie.

1987's other Allen film was the strenuously dramatic September, and the question of influence versus the merely derivative arose again: «Chekhovian» was how Richard Schickel described the «humourlessness,» echoed pejoratively by Vincent Canby at The New York Times («neo-Chekhovian») and all the way down to Premiere magazine journalist Marcelle Clements, who predicted this fixation on a single adjective before the movie was released — «You can bet your boots that the word «Chekhovian» will be uttered at least once by everyone at the table».

L.A. - based Everything Is Terrible inflicts on its audience a melange of some of the best (OK, «worst» is probably the better adjective) video clips from more than 2,000 awful horror movies («horror, satanic panic, and singing Christian duck VHS tapes» is how the group puts it), presented live at the Niarchos Foundation Parkway, 5 W. North Ave. 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Capcom also mentioned the release of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, but didn't use any adjective to describe its performance, which may or may not mean anything at all.

Kick off on the right foot with your class with this exciting resource which contains hundreds of photocopiable pictures, games, puzzles, surveys and quiz questions on: - Core Language (non technical): Me and Football • Fans and Players • Food & Drink, Clothes • Travel, Weather, Body • First Aid Kit • Shopping for Souvenirs • Mood of the Match • Adjectives, Verbs • Numbers and Time - Additional Language: At The Big Match • Inside the Stadium • Some of the Action • Some of the Rules • My Favourite Player • Match Report Age: 10 — Adult Level: Beginners to Intermediate KS2 / 3/4 124 pages.

It is flexible to help you teach ESL / EAL students beginners / elementary about vocabulary: the alphabet, the numbers, countries, nationalities, food, likes - dislikes, opinions and about grammar: verb BE, simple present, subject pronouns, possessive adjectives, adverbs of frequency The bundle contains 5 powerpoint presentations with about 30 slides each with clear explanations at the bottom of each one of them to give you a step - by - step explanation about the progression of the lesson.

Using a range of adjectives to describe extreme sports and then a look at the historical event of Franz Reichelt jumping to his death from the Eiffel tower.

There is a space for adjectives which comes in handy as a starter activity if you are looking at a piece or series of art works.

This story and resource are aimed at year 6 / year 7 learners discovering vocabulary of adjectives and Future tense.

> Extension work can easily be set, asking students to highlight different tenses in different colours, find negatives, identify adjectives etc > The pages can be printed off one at a time at the end of each topic or saddle stapled to make a nice booklet.

Also looks at agreement of adjectives (colours).

Ask the students look at a photograph of the snail and describe the snail using as many adjectives as possible.

Key stage 2 English Skills Revision Series One contains worksheets on: • Capital letters and full stops • Singular and plural words • Question marks • Exclamation marks • Nouns: common, proper, collective and abstract • Compound words • Adjectives • Prefixes • Suffixes • Commands • Verbs and tense • Adverbs • Apostrophe: possession and missing letters • Commas • Prepositions • Word family • Word roots • Determiners • Pronouns • Verbs, nouns and adjectives • Direct Speech • Subject - verb agreement NOTE In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National CAdjectives • Prefixes • Suffixes • Commands • Verbs and tense • Adverbs • Apostrophe: possession and missing letters • Commas • Prepositions • Word family • Word roots • Determiners • Pronouns • Verbs, nouns and adjectives • Direct Speech • Subject - verb agreement NOTE In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National Cadjectives • Direct Speech • Subject - verb agreement NOTE In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National Curriculum.

KS2 English Skills Revision Series Two contains worksheets on: • Noun phrases • Clauses: co-ordinating conjunctions, subordination • Relative pronouns • Relative clauses • Verbs: present tense, past tense, progressive, present progressive, past progressive, present perfect • Modal verbs • Parenthesis - brackets • Parenthesis - dashes • Synonyms • Antonyms • Ellipsis • Subject, verb, object • Punctuation • Verbs, active and passive voice • Colon • Semicolon • Hyphenated words • Bullet points • Verb or noun • Nouns and adjectives • Words with more than one meaning • Adverbs • Adverbials • Fronted adverbials NOTE In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National Curriculum.

After teaching adjectives to her third graders, Hodges had students use them in conjunction with a class trout - raising project by writing sentences describing the trout at different stages of their life cycle.

Following of from writing about the description of The Captain at the opening of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island this activity gets students to write their own description of a pirate encouraging the use of adjectives, similes, metaphors, and speech, with speech marks.

In one, they match the feeling to the story, while in the other, they draw Jack's face at different time and think of a adjective to describe him.

Like so much else in the world of teacher preparation, progress at readying new teachers for vastly different K - 12 content expectations can probably best be described by one adjective: inconsistent.

Organisation of materials: ppts 1 - 8 are an introduction and guide to adverbs ppt 9 answers to first handout ppts 10 - 17 looks at adverbs more in depth ppts 18 - 22 remaining answer keys to handouts 2 - 6 Handouts / Task sheets: 1 - Introduction to adverbs 2 - Gap fill exercise 3 - Adverb or Adjective?

Teaching Points: • Students will need some prior knowledge of what it means to extend a sentence and the role that adjectives can play in this • Students should be encouraged to use as many colours as possible to colour their pictures I have added some extras to give students and teachers an element of choice - Differentiation: • Alternative handwriting lines • A second bordered page for students who wish to write at length • The photo section provides more difficult vocabulary and could lead more able writers towards a «what happened next» story writing style, should the teacher wish to lead them in this direction • An editable version of all content has been provided for the teacher to make vocabulary choices.

These parts of speech review lesson plans are a perfect way to have your students review nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, while at the same time having your students participate in a lesson with an environmental awareness theme.

Granted, it has certainly taken time for things to kick in, but you only have to look at the past two years and see how rapid things are coming on line, where the slew of offerings coming about have, one after another, sought to not just placate, but accomplish something far more radical — how about excite for a suitable adjective?

If «stunned» is the adjective we keep hearing about the reaction to the news, there's good reason for that, right at the core of the UK's political elite: in an interview with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, CNN's Wolf Blitzer today has heard one of the most telling confessions of how things went this way, as Blair talks of the Labour Party failing to mobilize its voters by explaining to them, «This was not a protest vote.»

Oh I will run out of adjectives this time for sure: 0 «P. T.» as he's known here at home, is one of the most extraordinarily beautiful puppies you'll find.

Some popular adjectives that come to mind for many when conjuring up the perfect dog include young, happy, healthy, and good - looking, however, these are not necessarily the marks of a great pet (at least, not right out of the gate).

Wil Alamilla and the group of 5 other Pre-School teachers did not seem to have enough adjectives to describe their adventure at Caves Branch in the Cayo District, lying south of Belmopan.

I would describe the atmosphere and vibe at Mama's Home to be cozy, comfortable, laid - back, relaxed, chill, social, friendly, welcoming and charming — yup, I know that's a lot of adjectives but this hostel definitely lives up to all of them!

Additionally, the user interface has been vastly improved, featuring an easy - to - use command wheel that can be brought up at will, rather than a list of adjectives that are always onscreen.

As the youngest artist to present at the Whitney Biennial in 2006 (he was 25 at the time), Trecartin's first major work, A Family Finds Entertainment, has since become a seminal piece of video art; it's hyperactive pace and kitsch surrealism are now iconic (the word «Trecartin-esque» is a surprisingly common art - world adjective).

Arrhythmic Visions, Jamie Hamilton's show at the Center for Contemporary Arts, alongside Alison Keogh «s, titles itself with an adjective suggesting being out of rhythm.

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«Timeless» is a clichéd adjective, particularly when applied to painting, but in the case of Brice Marden's new works in his two solo exhibitions at Matthew Marks, it is especially apropos, referring less to the transcendent effect these marble paintings may have on a viewer than to the fact that they seem simultaneously anachronistic and contemporary.