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Sentence count:183+6Posted:2017-05-10Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: descriptionnondescriptprescriptioninscriptionconscriptionproscriptiontranscriptioncircumscriptionMeaning: [dɪ'skrɪptɪv]  adj. 1. serving to describe or inform or characterized by description 2. concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents 3. describing the structure of a language. 
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(31) What is more, proper names are normally introduced into discourse by means of descriptive phrases.
(32) What the opening chapter did was to provide largely descriptive material of the society with which we are concerned.
(33) It is very easy to respond to brief descriptions in catalogues that are not fully descriptive.
(33) Sentencedict.com try its best to collect and build good sentences.
(34) But it also involves a descriptive account of human nature and institutions.
(35) A proper name is no less a proper name for possessing a descriptive content.
(36) Poetry is provocative because it goes beyond prose which is descriptive.
(37) Even if marred by partiality and vagueness, this work is easily recognisable as theory, as explanation, not mere descriptive generalisation.
(38) In answering these questions, it is important to recall the distinction made earlier between prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
(39) Descriptive Neither historical nor comparative grammar is a likely foundation for a modern language method.
(40) This fact alone suggests that a purely descriptive approach to first degree courses is likely to be unproductive or excruciatingly boring.
(41) This last category Gumperz describes as somewhat more difficult to specify in purely descriptive terms.
(42) Much of our existing knowledge has been gathered from descriptive studies which lack controls and proper sampling procedures.
(43) The distinction between descriptive research and explanatory research is often very blurred.
(44) In particular, contingent entities can not be individuated in an absolute sense by any kind of descriptive phrase.
(45) A descriptive sociology requires a familiarity with the observed events that is achieved through intimate and often prolonged exposure.
(46) A descriptive sociology requires a sensitizing of oneself to the social phenomena described whatever may be their nature or conceptual complexity.
(47) A significant feature of this narrative as a whole is the division between what might be loosely termed descriptive and actional frames.
(48) Descriptive memoirs exist for many of the maps and these can be a fruitful source of information on mineral occurrences.
(49) When we describe or summarize numerical information to make it more usable we are essentially using descriptive statistics.
(50) The work includes published editions of documents and calendars of primary sources, and short descriptive notes are given where necessary.
(51) In trying to determine such regularities, the discourse analyst will typically adopt the traditional methodology of descriptive linguistics.
(52) Because they describe an objective reality, descriptive core beliefs are simply valid or invalid.
(53) The book is both an account of and an intervention in that process, veering between the descriptive and the prescriptive.
(54) Dwight was a literate scholar, president of Yale College, and no slouch when it came to descriptive if overheated passages.
(55) Have been growing less and less interested in titles that are other than purely descriptive.
(56) Purely descriptive studies serve as the raw data for those comparative studies that aspire to higher levels of explanation.
(57) Admittedly the descriptive technique is a matter of exploiting a ready-made emotive vocabulary.
(58) We are, after all, performing a descriptive and not a prescriptive exercise when we undertake discourse analysis.
(59) However, such statistics are descriptive, nor predictive, and must be treated with caution.
(60) Quantification provides greater descriptive flexibility and subtlety than simple classification.
More similar words: descriptionnondescriptprescriptioninscriptionconscriptionproscriptiontranscriptioncircumscriptionscriptscriptureconscriptpostscriptmanuscripttranscriptplayscriptdescribeindescribablescripprescribeprescribedcaptiveadaptivereceptivedeceptiveperceptivepreemptiveredemptivedisruptivedeceptivelyperceptively
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