verbal agreement
collocation in Englishmeaningsofverbalandagreement
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verbal
adjective
uk/ˈvɜː.bəl/us/ˈvɝː.bəl/
spoken rather ...
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agreement
noun
uk/əˈɡriː.mənt/us/əˈɡriː.mənt/
the situation in which people have the same opinion, or in which they approve of or ...
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(Definition ofverbalandagreementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofverbal agreement
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However, the presence ofverbalagreementdoes not preclude the development of argumental expletives.
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The same set of decisions is involved inverbalagreementof number and coherence of the complement or object.
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Among these surface cues, word order, nominal andverbalagreement, and nominal case marking have been extensively studied in the agent assignment, for example.
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Thus, a crucial difference inverbalagreementexists between constructions containing expletive it and those containing expletive there.
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It does and cannot mean averbalagreement, not even an agreement with regard to each and every phrase.
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On the contrary, interphrasal violations were numberverbalagreementbetween the noun and the verb.
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The positive settings for these parameters have often been linked to richverbalagreementmorphology.
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Verbalagreementwas one of the independent variables analyzed.
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However, negation also has special properties that can be argued to require expression even where otherverbalagreementfeatures may not.
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Later, from six years upwards, children rely onverbalagreementas adults do.
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These changes include, among others, the introduction of new pronouns and a related overall reduction in the use ofverbalagreement.
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So, for example, a positive value for the pro-drop parameter is taken to imply selection of richverbalagreementmorphology.
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As far asverbalagreementis concerned, a large gap exists between the oral and the written code.
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While the men were out in a meeting, management agents came into the mill lines and persuaded the women to join work on averbalagreementto meet their demands.
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It is obviously harder to detect a contingency between choice ofverbalagreementand choice of pronoun when only a subset of the children are in the relevant developmental stage.
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Infants aged 1; 7 showed a preference for listening to the sentences with theverbalagreement, suggesting that they are sensitive to the presence of the verbal -s.
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