Sentences with phrase «use of adjectives»

Avoid the use of adjectives like hard working or highly organized.

Use of Adjectives and Power words: Replacing a few verbs with stronger action words and adding a few powerful adjectives here and there in your resume can work wonders.

Your use of adjectives is killing your credibility.

Use of adjectives and nouns must be parallel in structure.

Compression of non-simple statements by the use of adjectives and adverbs can be mutilated to nonsense by editing.

Note: I am not against cash shops or developers making money, so please pay attention to the use of adjectives.

What about ellipsis dots, or the over use of adjectives and adverbs?

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.

A series of lessons (2 - 3 depending upon ability), exploring the use of adjectives in chapter two of «Skellig» by David Almond.

We've also seen projects with a literacy angle, such as, «A statistical comparison of the use of adjectives for the main characters in books by JK Rowling and JR Tolkein.

I include a word document on the use of adjectives and adverbs which could be used as an extension task.

Worksheet to practise simple opinions on school subjects (j' aime, je déteste etc), followed by justification of the opinion and use of adjectives (parce que c'est...)

I have bundled together four resources which concentrate on the use of adjectives and nouns, including abstract, concrete and proper.

No use of adjectives would be permitted.

I question CNN's use of the adjectives «top» and «prominent» about this blogger.

(II Timothy 1:14) How long a journey this use of the adjective reveals, since the tribesmen of Israel trembled before the holy mount!

(37) In the conventional use of the adjective as the modifier of a noun, the carefully selected adjective can strengthen (or reduce) the world view called forth by the noun, as is «The Lord is a very great God, a God above all gods.»

It gets rather complex, but there are three main uses of adjectives.

The word is a 19thC construction first made by Henry More, but is based on the use of the adjective «of knowledge», (Greek γνωστικός) by Irenaeus (c. 185 AD) to describe the school of Valentinus.

Even so, the use of the adjective sustainable as a modifier of growth has had some effect.

Encourages use of adjective placement and agree...

Steyn's use of the adjective «fraudulent» is actually pretty vague.

Not exact matches

Those who believe the Times is anti-Trump and the Journal is pro-Trump will likely continue to do so regardless of which euphemism or adjective is used.

«There's huge speculation, there's a huge number of different adjectives used to describe Brexit.

Apple's products are actually third - order innovations that use a variety of fundamental second - order innovations in the now vast realm of electronic components to assemble and to program devices whose greatest appeal has been due to their (choose your own adjective, or embrace all of them) sleek, unorthodox, elegant, streamlined, clean, functional interface design.

The adjectives used help build positive mental pictures in the mind of the listeners.

The adjective «sustainable» is used deliberately and financial sustainability is very definitely one of the things we have in mind.

(We do not have in our language a comparative for the adjective «past» — something like «paster» — thus our language again has to use a metaphor of spatial distance: «more remote in the past.»)

One set of questions, for example, asked the participants to describe themselves using five adjectives.

(Was «vintage» even used as an adjective before the advent of Martha's enterprise?)

The degree to which the U.S. press has become complicit in this deadly war of images is revealed by how frequently articles or news reports in the mainstream television and print media describe Nicaragua by using adjectives such as «Marxist,» «Cuban - backed,» «Marxist - Leninist,» «leftist,» «Soviet - backed,» and «totalitarian.»

The controversy began after the recent discovery of a statement in the Hindi textbook which used the adjective «haivaan» - which means demon - while referring to Jesus Christ.

Kaufman is unafraid to be — to use two of his favorite adjectives — both human and humane, honest about both his caution and his passions, and in that he provides even those of us who disagree with him with an admirable model of how to be a theologian.

The Greek word is a substantival adjective, which means that it is an adjective used in the place of a noun.

The pace of technological change is incredibly fast and often bewildering; two adjectives that won't be used to describe this book... More

The pace of technological change is incredibly fast and often bewildering; two adjectives that won't be used to describe this book...

Part of the strength of biblical poetry is its parsimony in the use of emotive adjectives, and to my taste there is altogether too much adjectival insistence in the ICEL versions.

Using an orderly arrangement, it has all the crucial paradigms for nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, and participles, as well as helpful lists of prepositions, irregular verbs, and other details frequently needed for Greek translation.

(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.)

Overhearing conversations, while walking the streets of New York, it struck me a few years ago that I couldn't get to the office or back without hearing, usually several times, the F - word used as noun, adjective, adverb, and ways grammatically unspecifiable.

The word comes from the Greek adjective eschatos, meaning «last,» frequently used in the New Testament (as in II Timothy3: 1,»... in the last days there will come times of stress,» but also in such familiar usage as Matthew 19:30: «But many that are first will be last, and the last first»).

Thirdly, the principle of economy in the use of words, especially adjectives and adverbs, is invariably a sound one.

And I would for the immediate future ban all «relevant» liturgy, most of which all too blatantly verifies Raimer's observation that trinitarian faith has little role in Western pop Christianity — though he was of course too polite to use that last adjective.

This is a verb, but the adjective form of it is used right in John 15:3.

Kent — the term religious is being used as a noun, not an adjective, and represents people who have taken orders (orders meaning having joined a specific religeous organization in order to live in that organization for the rest of their lives).

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.

Rather the adjective is used in a technical sense, and makes a specific contribution to the total meaning of the expression.

As you probably know form English, there are numerous ways of using adjectives.

The word Catholic in those days is not the way we use it today, late Middle English (sense 2 of the adjective): from Old French catholique or late Latin catholicus, from Greek katholikos «universal», from kata «with respect to» + holos «whole».

I could go on and on here: The adjectives used to describe women in leadership roles versus the ones used to describe men in similar jobs, the previous arrest record of black people involved in a law enforcement shooting and yet never the officer's misconduct record, the average amount of lines given to male characters over female.