Word: syntax
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...Dennis, his tutor, cured that. Two years later White was in Rio de Janeiro meeting another tutor at 9 o'clock every morning to master Portuguese, and in another two years he was in Bonn, where Frau Anne Marie von Dobschiitz began explaining the intricacies of German syntax...
...first session, Senator Mundt set a properly pompous keynote by asking the spectators to "refrain from any demonstrations of approval or disapprobation." his colleagues rapidly followed suit, allowing nothing, including rules of syntax, to interfere with their selections of elegant variations and high-blown pariphrases. One Senator asked, to find out who had begun some action, "Would you state that that was motivated from the Senator's (McCarthy) end of the line...
...often widely separated from the verb whose meaning it changes. Dr. Bar-Hillel points out that the sentence "Paid gibt Trunkenheit vor" (Paul simulates drunkenness) might be translated mechanically "Paul gives drunkenness before." He has no solution for this problem except to make writers of German use an "operational syntax" that will not perplex the machine...
...syntax will help the machine with idiomatic expressions. Literally translated, "Das gibt sich schon" (This will subside in time) would come out as "This gives itself already...
...Moore gets his by half-closing his right eye and crossing his fists in front of his chest; for emphasis he uses the waggling forefinger and the forward head bob. Du Mont's Paul Dixon strikes the folksy note by chewing gum, rubbing his nose and garbling his syntax. Bob Crosby is a hands-in-pockets man, but he also shoots his eyebrows, ducks his head winningly and rocks on heel and toe. His cast struggles to be homespun, and his young singer, Allan Copeland, is loaded with boyish humility...