commenced
past simple and past participle ofcommence
| 单词 | commenced |
| 释义 | commenced past simple and past participle ofcommence commence verb[IorT] formaluk/kəˈmens/us/kəˈmens/C2 tobeginsomething: We will commencebuildingworkinAugustof nextyear. Shall weletthemeetingcommence? [+ -ing verb]Unfortunately, he commencedspeakingbefore all theguestshadfinishedeating. Starting and beginning
Examplesofcommencedcommenced In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. All three children were fully able to understand both languages at ageappropriate levels and could produce spontaneous utterances in both languages before recordingcommenced. From theCambridge English Corpus Each setcommencedwith two, two-word sequences, followed by two, three-word sequences, and so on until a maximum of two, eleven-word sequences was reached. From theCambridge English Corpus The intervention group was a closed cohort group where no rolling admissions were allowed into the group after treatment hadcommenced. From theCambridge English Corpus Countingcommenceddirectly after each 2-h shedding period and was discontinued after the last 2-h period during which no cercariae were observed. From theCambridge English Corpus With the advent of electronics and computer technology in 1950, automationcommencedto apply electronics and computer systems to control machines. From theCambridge English Corpus The majority of patients whocommencedcounselling were female (67%). From theCambridge English Corpus Then crawling a few steps wascommenced, keeping the same relaxed, lengthened posture. From theCambridge English Corpus The stages may overlap, in that further evolution of one stage may continue to complexify after evolution of a later stage hascommenced. From theCambridge English Corpus There is evidence that this process may havecommencedprior to the last common ancestor, but if so, it was still in its infancy. From theCambridge English Corpus When emerged males were present, the courtship processcommencedimmediately upon the protrusion of the female's head from the emergence hole. From theCambridge English Corpus The experiment wascommencedby opening a valve to allow the coolant to pass through the brass plate. From theCambridge English Corpus All infectionscommencedwith a single gravid worm attached to the central region of the caudal fin. From theCambridge English Corpus Birth intervals have been calculated for all births in the survey areas thatcommencedand ended with a known date of birth. From theCambridge English Corpus First, participants were required to name all of the pictured stimuli in a lesson before instructioncommenced. From theCambridge English Corpus Continuous peristaltic wavescommencedsequentially at the distal end and moved down the body until they were lost from sight in the snail tissue. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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