How To Use Polysyllable In A Sentence
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For all their - almost - excess of expression, the lines are cadenced and paid out in a sort of listening rhythm, a very personal, measured gather and tumble of polysyllables, after the unhearing jack-hammer blast of the early poems.
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Their choice of words is correspondingly simple, lacking the tension between polysyllables and monosyllables observed in the stanzas from ‘The Triumph of Time’.
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In the features of the Chinese adverb, the polysyllable and monosyllable phrases have different functions. However, in past adverb research, people have neglected the genre conditionality principle.
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They belong in the category because they contain polysyllable words and can be slightly harder to read and follow.
Archive 2008-07-01
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Their choice of words is correspondingly simple, lacking the tension between polysyllables and monosyllables observed in the stanzas from the poem.
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For all their - almost - excess of expression, the lines are cadenced and paid out in a sort of listening rhythm, a very personal, measured gather and tumble of polysyllables, after the unhearing jack-hammer blast of the early poems.
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In general, the contrast of monosyllables and polysyllables (suspended in the five-word line eight) creates a strong balance.
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Palin may be proud she can handle a polysyllable like "socialist" without screwing it up, but the rest of the world is terrified to think that she may have any input, at all, in shaping our foreign policy, and we should be, too.
1960 Revisited?
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Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
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Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
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A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
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Indian English, with its fascination for the polysyllable and the poetic, has a special flavor of its own as it is concocted through the transcreation of a thought process forged originally in Oriya, or Telugu, etc.
Archive 2008-02-01
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The latest finding is that the SMS generation is unable to communicate in polysyllables or even in complete sentences.
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A word of one syllable is called a monosyllable, as just; a word of two syllables, a dissyllable, as just'ice; a word of three syllables, a trisyllable, as just'i-fy; a word of more than three syllables, a polysyllable, as just-ca'tion.
The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronuncia
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So far as I know, this particular Finnish polysyllable never made it into any of Tolkien's languages.
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In general, the contrast of monosyllables and polysyllables (suspended in the five-word line eight) creates a strong balance.
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A word containing many syllables is a polysyllable or polysyllabic word, such as selectivity and utilitarianism.
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Lawyers are notorious for lawyer-speak; my own alternate profession, medicine, has a weakness for Latin polysyllables, forever rechristening diseases and body parts for which simple English words already exist.
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The Daily Mail, high on moral tone, low on polysyllables?
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We are like that only Indian English, with its fascination for the polysyllable and the poetic, has a special flavor of...
Archive 2008-09-01
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In the background I overhear Tom and Trisha exchanging a conversation in melodious polysyllables.
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Gary Sauer-Thompson asks about ‘Anzacs, regionalism and national identity’, with powerful illustrations to break up his challenging polysyllables.
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They are all found in botanical works under long, clumsy, Latin appellations, very little fitted for every-day uses, just like the plants of our gardens, half of which are only known by long-winded Latin polysyllables, which timid people are afraid to pronounce.
Rural Hours
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He spoke in sentences that clocked in at a grade-school level, the speed of delivery was lugubrious, or perhaps aimed at the part of the audience that processes the occasional polysyllable rather slowly.
Discourse.net: The Speeches
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Right alongside of this are vocabulary choices – go with the polysyllable or the Anglo-Saxon four letter version?
2007 May « Hyperpat’s HyperDay
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Even on radio, their rhetorical style sounds windy, verbose, addicted to polysyllables for their own sake.
