What's the difference between expositive and expository?
Expositive
Definition:
(a.) Serving to explain; expository.
Example Sentences:
(1) After 45 days of the exposition, the protective action of these soaps were evaluated.
(2) Essential parameters of hepatic functioning in 84 labourers, whose exposition to benzene is differing in assimilation as well as length of time is discussed.--45 persons from the same county without contact to benzene or hepatotoxic agents served as control-group.
(3) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
(4) This article summarizes the increased absorption levels of mercury among dwellers of Ciudad Cristiana Housing Project in Humacao, Puerto Rico confirming the exposition to the metal as documented by sediment analysis of the area performed by the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board.
(5) Reference is made to De Gaetano's exposition of Walsh's views concerning the rôle of platelets in clotting.
(6) A photograph, first exhibited by the Department of Psychology of Clark University at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is included, and further illustrates the importance of these instruments to historians.
(7) The influence of the electric field of commerical frequency on metabolism and interorgan distribution of copper, molybdenum, iron and manganese was studied in the 4-month experiment on animals with their daily 30-minute exposition.
(8) Hot on the heels of the Beijing Olympics, Shanghai’s 2010 Expo was the biggest in history, spread across an area five times the size of Milan’s exposition at a cost of $50bn (£32bn) – a level of ambition that saw 18,000 families forcibly displaced , according to Amnesty International.
(9) The differential diagnosis of unclear carcinoma-suspicious renal findings often finishes with the test-exposition and nephrectomy.
(10) It is assumed that the neutral point of the spatial frame of reference for coding spatial position is at the position where attention is focussed immediately before exposition of the stimulus pattern.
(11) The author exposits his adherence to universal determinism and attempts to answer the question, "What sort of possibility and ethics are permitted in a deterministic universe?"
(12) Its simplest exposition is called the "Monty Hall" problem, from the US TV show Let's Make a Deal.
(13) In the absence of any coronary disorders--after a long CO exposition--necrosis of the papillary muscles have been revealed.
(14) It is shown that the formation of p-TA under these conditions depends on the period of the micro-discharge effect on the system, it is maximal at exposition of 30 s for I = 4.2 mA.
(15) Peculiarities of aggregation in the samples of high density serum lipoproteins LHD2 and LHD3 obtained from healthy donors and patients with ishaemic heart disease were studied under isothermal exposition.
(16) However, transanal exposition bears the risk of worsening the incontinence.
(17) Moreover, exposition to simultaneous hypoxia and hypercapnia increased the epinephrine stock of the adrenal glands.
(18) Those effects depend on time of cell exposition to this compound.
(19) Such a reaction may also be expected during a natural exposition to pollens.
(20) The technique of collection was the usual one with the exposition of the Petri dishes containing Sabouraud Agar distributed 72 hours before.
Expository
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Young students, old students, and old nonstudents read and recalled short texts that were in either narrative or expository form.
(2) The paper is largely expository and is intended to motivate the development and usage of the regressive logistic models.
(3) Undergraduates, 20 women and 25 men, studied an expository text containing only isolated paragraphs.
(4) This experiment compared the effects of high-level and low-level postpassage questions, when presented immediately after the passage segment containing the answer to the question, on college students' free recall of expository prose passages.
(5) Young and older adults of low or high verbal ability heard narrative and expository passages at different presentation rates.
(6) There were 2 specific objectives: (1) to examine the effects of text genre (narrative and expository) and text format (familiar and traditional) on mothers' teaching strategies while interacting with their children around reading tasks, and (2) to examine the effectiveness of mothers' teaching strategies in eliciting children's participation in the joint reading tasks.
(7) This expository paper describes two useful tools for the statistical analysis of processes that generate repeated measures and longitudinal data.
(8) The instructional program consisted of expository texts, different types of questions and feedback.
(9) Younger and older adults read and recalled narrative and expository prose passages of varying propositional density.
(10) This study examined the effectiveness of a summarization strategy for increasing comprehension of expository prose in students with learning disabilities.
(11) College students studied an expository text following their own self-directed study procedures.
(12) We hope to remedy this deficiency with this expository piece.
(13) As in the 1975 Marihuana and Health Report, the present chapter is organized for expository purposes around four categories of unlearned behavior: gross behavior; activity and exploration; consummatory behavior; and aggressive behavior.
(14) Response latencies on a secondary task provided an index of cognitive capacity used in reading narrative and expository passages.
(15) "Yet I fear we must endure many pages of expository narration in which minor characters in whom the reader has little interest reveal details of the crime until the jury inevitably reaches the wrong conclusion."
(16) Thirty hearing-impaired and 30 normally hearing students read and summarized two expository science passages that were controlled for the number of topic (main idea) sentences and that had been rated previously for the importance of "idea units."
(17) An expository discussion of pertinent hypotheses for such situations is given, and appropriate test statistics are developed through the application of weighted least squares methods.
(18) This expository paper starts with a non-technical outline of the latent trait model, gives a detailed analysis of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and examines points raised by the empirical analysis through computer stimulation.
(19) Most of us who have concerned ourselves with models can perceive outlines like those above to catalog the future evolution of the expository function of models.
(20) High school youths who were prelingually and profoundly deaf, hearing elementary-school-age youths, and hearing reading-disabled high school youths read expository texts and filled in deleted words and phrases.