sentential
- adjective
- /sɛnˈtɛnʃəl/
- Specialized
- Many students struggle with sentential coherence when constructing their essays.
- sentential pausing
- sentential context
- sentential pause
Examples
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Understanding sentential structure is crucial for language learning.
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However, the present subjunctive can appear in a si-clause that is a sentential complement, as in
Academic text (1995) -
His account doesn't explain what it means for a simple sentential function to be satisfied by an object.
Blog text (2) -
Reading comprehension involves putting the recognized words together to gain sentential and textual understanding.
Academic text (2012) -
Therefore, some of Swinney's targets would have been facilitated by virtue of their ambiguity, regardless of their relationship to the sentential context.
Academic text (1991) -
To do this, such linguists must "triangulate" between the utterances of the natives, the world, and their own sentential attitudes.
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We hypothesized that average readers would demonstrate lower fluency than highly skilled readers via less pitch mobility and longer sentential pauses.
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A 1 on the rating scale indicated that only one meaning of the homonym was plausible according to sentential context; a 5 indicated that both meanings were equally plausible.
Academic text (1991) -
Brock et al. (2008) found that language impairment, not autism, differentiated children's abilities to integrate higher-level (sentential/pragmatic) information during word recognition.
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The teacher emphasized the importance of sentential clarity in writing.
Compounds
- Specialized
An expression with gaps that becomes a sentence when you fill them with words
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sentential comes from the common word sentence, which itself comes from an old Latin root sentire meaning 'to feel' or 'to think'. So, sentential means 'about a sentence', relating to the parts and meaning of a sentence.