| 单词 | favourite sentence |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfavourite sentence 3. favourite sentence attributive (see quot. 1964). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [adjective] > relating to a sentence > common to large number of sentences favourite sentence1933 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xi. 171 Certain forms [of sentence-type] are favorite sentence-forms. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xi. 172 In English we have two favorite sentence-forms. One consists of actor-action phrases—John ran away... The other consists of a command..Be good! 1942 B. Bloch & G. L. Trager Outl. Ling. Anal. v. 74 Let us look briefly at the English actor-action construction. The most striking thing about it is its universality: it is the favorite-sentence type of English. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics vi. 232 The patterns common to large numbers of the sentences of a language may be called its favourite sentence types. < as lemmas |
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