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Hard Sentences and Tongue-Twisters for Broken Telephone. 1. Betty Bottle bought some bitter bits of butter. 2. Black bats back bricks. 3. Corn cobs cost copious amounts. 4. Doorknobs and door ...
The sentence can be given as a grammatical puzzle [7] [8] [9] or an item on a test, [1] [2] for which one must find the proper punctuation to give it meaning. Hans Reichenbach used a similar sentence ("John where Jack had...") in his 1947 book Elements of Symbolic Logic as an exercise for the reader, to illustrate the different levels of language, namely object language and metalanguage.
Some unsupervised summarization approaches are based on finding a "centroid" sentence, which is the mean word vector of all the sentences in the document. Then the sentences can be ranked with regard to their similarity to this centroid sentence. A more principled way to estimate sentence importance is using random walks and eigenvector centrality.
Revision is a process in writing of rearranging, adding, or removing paragraphs, sentences, or words. Writers may revise their writing after a draft is complete or during the composing process. Revision involves many of the strategies known generally as editing but also can entail larger conceptual shifts of purpose and audience as well as content.
In the US, people accused of crimes are turning to film producers to help show their lives in a different light.
BES (Basic English Sentence) Search is a non-commercial tool for finding beginner-level English sentences for use in teaching materials. [31] It has over 1 million sentences, most of them from Tatoeba. [32] Reverso uses Tatoeba parallel corpora in its commercial bilingual concordancer. [33] Example sentences are also used as a base for exercises.
Retired kicker Martin Gramatica of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers watches pregame ceremonies during a game against the San Francisco 49ers Dec. 15, 2013, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla.
They can also indicate a relationship between clauses or sentences (He died, and consequently I inherited the estate). [28] Many English adverbs are formed from adjectives by adding the ending -ly, as in hopefully, widely, theoretically (for details of spelling and etymology, see -ly).