Personification
word study often focuses on the use of verbs, which are especially important in creating the human - like qualities.
The word study often has no value.
Not exact matches
In the
study, 276 participants answered a survey which asked about the cuss
words they used most
often, and in what circumstances.
Besides identifying the most effective opening phrase, it turns out the
study also examined the closing phrases people
often use, and came up with a best practice there, too: a simple three -
word phrase that prompted a much higher response rate than other, more common closings.
Contrasting judgments
often arise from
studying the Niagara of
words that justified the American War for Independence — together with all the
words that circulated anxiously during the parlous years under the Confederation Congress — which rose to a great flood in the period 1787 to 1790 in....
Those who have had basic courses in the biblical languages and are willing to devote 20 minutes a day to such language
study should gain enough language ability to base their sermon text
study on the original text, and they should have enough linguistic skill to use the best of the great philological commentaries, which
often cite
words from the original languages.
It is not a person's
words that make him or her a Christian, or what they post on Facebook or wear on their t - shirts, or even how many Bible verses they can quote, or how
often they attend church and Bible
studies, or whether they can «take a stand for Christ.»
Vince's book is unique in that he includes Greek
word studies about as
often as he uses the
word «crap.»
I
often take time throughout the year to
study the
word or the concept it represents, to pray through it, to write through, to look for ways to embody it, to let it be the answer when I'm perplexed.
If you are not feeding daily on Scripture, and listening to Biblically based sermons as
often as you can, and attending Bible
studies, and then, living out what God teaches you from His
Word, you will never produce an abundant harvest.
Anyone who has
studied the Bible seriously, knows that there are
often passages that conflict... unfortunately allowing those who take every
word as coming from God, the ability to pick and choose which verses they desire to use for their current needs.
One more point: As a journalist myself, I can tell you that
often we need to rephrase our
words (and headlines) carefully as to not misrepresent these
studies, but still find the «story».
People in Buffalo use
words considered offensive and derogatory to gays in their tweets more
often than people in any other city in the United States, according to a recent
study.
«Although such systems are capable of understanding many
words, they are
often tripped up by creative uses of
words that go beyond their existing, pre-programmed vocabularies,» said
study lead author Yang Xu, a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics and cognitive science at UC Berkeley.
Don't take the
words «research» and «
study» without a grain of salt: It's
often hard to draw «news you can use» from certain experiments — for example, those that aren't peer - reviewed or published in a credible journal, those that are performed on animals, or those that are purely observational — which means that other factors could be involved in the outcome.
In other
words, I would say that based on that
study and how
often humans choose cooked over raw, it appears that humans have a natural affinity for cooked foods.
However, numbers
often speak louder than
words, especially when those numbers are backed by extensive research
studies and surveys.
It cites a new
study that «suggests that people who
often do multiple tasks in a variety of media — texting, instant messaging, online video watching,
word processing, Web surfing, and more — do worse on tests in which they need to switch attention from one task to another than people who rarely multitask in this way.»
However, if you ask most teaching colleagues and parents to share memories of learning about poetry, they recall,
often with pained expressions, intensely
studying a small number of poets in high school, where they had to analyze poems
word by
word.
Findings from a large number of correlational
studies on language have shown that frequency of exposure strongly predicts
word learning and seems to have long - range consequences for later language and reading levels.35 Although this finding is
often mentioned in the literature, what is new is that we may have underestimated the frequency required to learn
words.
- Vivian Gornick, author of Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City «This book is for anyone interested in a dazzlingly brilliant, uncommonly compassionate, and
often hilarious
study of human nature... for a writer so gifted at locating the excruciating commonalities of isolation, Jamison manages this greatest feat of magic: when I read her
words, I come away feeling less alone.»
Often so practical in application that it is overlooked, the answer is found by
studying the life and
words of Christ (whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your slave).
Often regarded as the absolute best talkers in the bird world, African Grey Parrots have not only displayed the ability to mimic up to 1,000
words, but some who have been
studied are reported to also be able to associate those
words with meaning, effectively making it possible for them to communicate with their owners.
Unfortunately, alarmists prevent this when they take evangelical views,
words and actions regarding this particular issue
often citing their own set of «facts» which five minutes
study can debunk, geological history can debunk, solar cycles can debunk, temperature history can debunk, «ocean conveyer» history can debunk, etc... the cry «We have ten years or were all going to die» (or equivalent) is not helpful and simply creates a mob - mentality based on fear.
In continuation of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, we'd like to spread the
word about another
study that focuses on another related problem: smartphone distraction when driving and how
often it plays a part in people's trips.
Virtually everyone uses verbal fillers, though the frequency can vary greatly from person to person.18 A
study of one language database showed that speakers produced between 1.2 and 88.5 uhs and ums for every thousand
words, with a median filler rate of 17.3 per thousand
words.19 Other databases show anywhere from three to twenty uhs and ums for every thousand
words, placing uh and um thirty - first in a ranking of most commonly used utterances, just ahead of or and just after not.20 A British
study showed that, contrary to popular expectations, the use of verbal fillers does not indicate a lack of education or manners; instead, the use of uh and um increases with education and socioeconomic status, a finding with particular implications for the legal profession.21 Older people use more uhs and ums than younger people, and, curiously, men consistently use verbal fillers more
often than women — a finding that has been replicated across several
studies.22 Women, for their part, appear to use a higher ratio of ums to uhs than their male counterparts.23
As I continued in my work as a trauma specialist, I
often heard Marisa's
words in my head: «Read more, go to conferences,
study with mentors so you can figure out how to help me.»
I was also drawn to the
word because, as a discipline, synergetics is not
often studied.