(a.) Of or pertaining to an adverb; of the nature of an adverb; as, an adverbial phrase or form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Errors of the auxiliary and suffix were easier for children to identify than an adverbial error which required a sentence analysis to determine the incompatibility.
(2) This is why your department provided a ludicrous list of “expected” levels for year 2 and year 6 children, full of terminology such as “subordinating conjunctions” and “fronted adverbials”.
(3) The oldest children (like the adults) were more likely to prepose when clauses than were younger children, a finding which suggests that with increasing awareness of the information needs of the listener, children begin to use preposed adverbial clauses as information 'guideposts'.
(4) In particular, we argue that an event structure can provide a distinct and useful level of representation for linguistic analysis involving the aspectual properties of verbs, adverbial scope, the role of argument structure, and the mapping from the lexicon to syntax.
(5) An interesting discrepancy emerged between the use and the understanding of adverbial conjuncts, a finding that resembled the well-documented discrepancy between the use and the understanding of spoken words in young children.
(6) In a longitudinal study concerned to assess Verb Phrase (VP) development in three Trinidadian children, adverbials were found to be crucial in delineating specific areas of semantic intent, and to develop early (between ages 2; 3 and 3; 0).
(7) In Experiment 1, these two principles were studied in complex sentences with a main clause and a subordinate adverbial clause-e.g., "When she heard the thunder, she stopped playing Frisbee."
(8) Factors that may contribute to the development of adverbial conjuncts are discussed.
(9) Again, teachers have been sweating over “fronted adverbials” for the past few years.
(10) The use and understanding of two types of adverbial conjuncts, concordant (e.g., similarly, moreover, consequently) and discordant (e.g., contrastively, rather, nevertheless), was examined developmentally in 120 adolescents and young adults.
(11) Two of the children were exposed to, and acquired, both TC and SE verb categories and the third, TC, but the existence of TC past-completive zero phi as a prominent verbal marker in all their systems made for reliance on adverbial and extralinguistic context in delineating meaning intentions at an early stage; the use which they made of adverbial specification, in particular for marking perfect aspect, indicates how useful these elements may be for precise specification of the development of tense-aspect categories.
Copula
Definition:
(n.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.
(n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ejaculation occurred frequently in the SU condition but rarely in SR tests, results suggesting that sheath retraction may normally inhibit ejaculation in ex copula tests, and perhaps during copulation as well.
(2) In the ex copula genital reflex test, DPAT dramatically inhibited ejaculation and the display of penile erections.
(3) In a second experiment, intracranial microinjection of quinelorane was followed by ex copula reflex tests.
(4) Purkinje cell responses in lobules I-III were equivalent at both SRIF doses, and degeneration in the copula pyramis, paraflocculus and paramedian lobule emerged at the higher SRIF dose.
(5) In the in copula mating test, 20 and 80 micrograms IT 8-OH-DPAT, significantly reduced ejaculation latency, intromission frequency and intercopulatory interval.
(6) The 8-OH-DPAT-induced increase in glucose utilization in the copula pyramis, that is putatively associated with the appearance of the 5-HT behavioural syndrome, was also blocked by BMY 7378, as was the behavioural syndrome.
(7) The largest increases occurred in granule cell patches in the contralateral copula pyramidis (Cop P) and pyramis (P), the hemispheric and vermal portions of the eighth cerebellar lobule, respectively.
(8) At 40 days of age all animals were gonadectomized, received implants of TP in silastic capsules, and were tested in subsequent weeks for masculine copulatory behavior and ex copula phallic responses.
(9) Such grouped receptors may function to indicate position of the worm in copula.
(10) There was a partial recovery of emission in copula by the fourth week of treatment, suggesting that a nonadrenergic mechanism had assumed this function.
(11) In Experiment 1 a D1 agonist injected into the MPOA increased the number of ex copula erections but decreased the number of seminal emissions.
(12) Transition of the tegumental surface from the juvenile to the adult form begins after worms are in copula and have grown to several millimeters in length.
(13) Paired males were found to be in copula on 20-34% of observations.
(14) The purpose of the study was to determine whether Black inmates could be distinguished from White inmates by their use of the present progressive, final stops, distributive be, remote aspect been, noun plurals, third person singular present tense, possessives, consonant clusters, and the copula.
(15) Unpaired males lacked spined tubercles and the development of the spines is considered to occur only when worms are in copula.
(16) Metergoline pretreatment also failed to antagonize the RDS-127-induced facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
(17) Both spined and unspined tubercles were found on the dorsal and dorso-lateral surfaces of sexually mature (in copula) male worms.
(18) In contrast to seminal emission ex copula, pimozide pretreatment failed to antagonize the RDS-127 facilitation of ejaculatory behavior in copula.
(19) Genital reflex ex copula tests were used in order to assess these two responses without the confounding factors of mating behavior.
(20) These studies indicate the need for cautious interpretation of data obtained from in vitro analyses of separated male and female mansonian schistosomes, and that such conditions may not reflect in vivo or in copula function.