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A particularly odd English ergative verb is " graduate ": " he graduated from school " and " school graduated him " mean the same thing, although the latter usage has passed out of vogue, and one meets with occasional criticism of the intransitive form.
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Nevertheless, Williams was somewhat resentful of being called up, which he admitted years later, particularly regarding the Navy's odd policy of calling up Inactive Reservists rather than members of the Active Reserve.
* The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 led to odd weather patterns and temporary cooling in the United States, particularly in the Midwest and parts of the Northeast.
In a particularly odd case, an elephant which trampled a mother and child buried its victim under a pile of leaves before disappearing into the bushes.
Although at times Bobby is seen as odd by his parents and peers, he maintains a remarkable talent with people, particularly with girls, who find him cute and entertaining.
Their ramblings illustrate character by describing the interactions of an odd personality with a particularly telling set of circumstances.
And certain elements of adventure games that seem particularly odd ( exchanging unrelated items, having to try an option multiple times to get a result ) are played out for maximum comedic effect.
That presents a problem, until Týr remembers a particularly large kettle in the possession of his father Hymir ( which is odd, as Týr is otherwise said to be the son of Óðinn ) ( Odin ).
The movement of the pistons in a horizontal engine is all in the same plane, so it creates less vibration than in a V-configuration engine ; particularly one, like a V6, with an odd number of cylinders on each side of the engine.
When questioned about his work by fans, particularly about the more mystifying aspects of Utena, he tends to give humorous, odd, or evasive responses ( for instance, asked about the significance of the stopwatch carried by the character Miki, he said that it contains the key to " all the mysteries of the world.
Assmann ` s behaviour in the hospital was particularly odd.
" although he criticized the animation of The Who other than Daltrey, saying that " That ’ s particularly odd in the case of Pete, as he ’ d gone awfully bald and gray by 2000.
Examples of particularly interesting, odd, or funny phrases are listed here ( without an understanding of Danish, the humour will likely be lost ):
The Oddball Barnstar may be awarded to an editor who creates a particularly fine article regarding a subject that is odd, whimsical, or is otherwise something that one wouldn't expect to find in more traditional encyclopedias.
Moreover, the band also added odd stunts and theatrical bits to some of their stage shows, particularly when playing in Chicago and Champaign.
Hacker enjoys various alcoholic beverages, particularly harder liquors, including scotch whisky: " the odd drinkie ", as he likes to call them.
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For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.
Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.
* Adrian Jones ( 1845 – 1938 ), English sculptor and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses
This kind of formal English, particularly written English, is often called " standard English ".
Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America and Australasia are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary.
Australian English likewise blends American and British alongside native usages, but retains a significantly higher degree of distinctiveness from both of the larger varieties than does Canadian English, particularly in terms of pronunciation and vocabulary.
She also used the priory during her short reign, particularly in 1547, where she felt safe from the English Army.
This was particularly attractive as it would lay the foundations for the establishment of an English monarchy.
These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.
Computational linguistics originated with efforts in the United States in the 1950s to use computers to automatically translate texts from foreign languages, particularly Russian scientific journals, into English.
English influence is particularly pronounced.
Though native speakers of English have been working in non-English speaking countries in this capacity for years, it was not until the last twenty-five years or so that there was any widespread focus on training particularly for this field.
Initially the denomination grew in the English-speaking world, particularly in the English Midlands and parts of North America.
He uses the tales and the descriptions of its characters to paint an ironic and critical portrait of English society at the time, and particularly of the Church.
The linkage of clothing with political protest had become a particularly English characteristic during the 18th century.
It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.
Later critics of the Baroque, such as Francesco Milizia and the English architect Sir John Soane, were particularly critical of Borromini ’ s work.
Demand in English and demande in French or domanda in Italian are representative of a particularly treacherous sort of false friend, in which – despite a common origin – the words have differently shaded meanings.
Some graphemes may not represent any sound at all ( like the b in English debt ), and often the rules of correspondence between graphemes and phonemes become complex or irregular, particularly as a result of historical sound changes that are not necessarily reflected in spelling.
After the Peace of Westphalia which ended the war in favour of nations deciding their own religious allegiance, Absolutism became the norm of the continent, while parts of Europe experimented with constitutions foreshadowed by the English Civil War and particularly the Glorious Revolution.
The English merchants holding plantations in the warm southern parts of America then resorted rather quickly to the slavery of Native Americans and imported Africans in order to cultivate their plantations and sell raw material ( particularly cotton and tobacco ) in Europe.
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In Dutch, ergative verbs are used in a way similar to English, but they stand out as more distinct particularly in the perfect tenses.
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This is because in the Irish language there is no verb " to have ", and more particularly because Irish Gaelic uses a construction using the words " Tar éis " ( meaning " after ") to convey the sense of " having just " done something.
Having said this, Campidanese in contrast at times shows more archaic features than Logudorese, particularly in its verb forms, such as the retention of the 3rd person plural in-nt (), reduced to-n () in Logudorese.
In Malay, ' lah ' is used to change a verb into a command or to soften its tone, particularly when usage of the verb may seem impolite.
However, the compound verb treatment may have some advantages, particularly when it comes to semantic analysis.
Fearing the genericizing and potential loss of its trademark, Google has discouraged use of the word as a verb, particularly when used as a synonym for general web searching.
Land tenure is the name given, particularly in common law systems, to the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, who is said to " hold " the land ( the French verb " tenir " means " to hold "; " tenant " is the present participle of " tenir ").
This is particularly done for Japanese compound verbs ( the okurigana inflection of the first, main verb is dropped ), as above.
Subsequently, " to roger " became a slang verb form meaning " to have sex with / to penetrate ", often particularly referring to anal sex.
The verb shall is used in some ( particularly formal ) varieties of English in place of will, indicating futurity, when the subject is first person ( I shall, we shall ).
In Australian English, and particularly among Aborigines, has become a verb, to talk.
Although standard and known elsewhere, the usage of verb compounds is particularly prevalent in Savo Finnish and a prolific source of creative expressions.
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