Translations for „monosyllable“ in the Slovenian » English Dictionary

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monosyllable

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He was settled comfortably in a large chair, speaking very rarely or only in occasional monosyllables, and mostly remaining detached from everyone around him.

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Initially he is dressed in a loincloth only (with an occasional cravat added in an amusing attempt to appear more civilized) and speaks in grunts and monosyllables.

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Such harmless industry may surely be forgiven if it can not be praised; may he therefore never want a monosyllable who can use it with such wonderful dexterity.

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Later generative metrists pointed out that poets have often treated non-compound words of more than one syllable differently from monosyllables and compounds of monosyllables.

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The tendency to monosyllables is quite worrying, as is the use of signs instead of sentences with subjects and predicates.

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The acoustic effect is intensified by the prevalence of monosyllables and the elimination of unstressed articles, or their substitution with a stressed demonstrative.

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It also looks as if monosyllables were more likely to change than polysyllables.

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Reports noted he stood in the one spot, he struggled to comprehend questions and those he answered were in monosyllables.

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In every lexical word, and in some grammatical words, one syllable is identified as having primary stress, though in monosyllables the stress is not generally marked.

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Initially she could only speak in monosyllables, yes and no, but then started to form sentences.

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