Example sentences for: gove

How can you use “gove” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Language appropriate to level: a basic ability to read and write, followed by the capacity to handle abstract usage, and, at a higher level, to be at ease with what Philip Gove in Webster's Third called ISV, `international scientific vocabulary.

  • in the phrase ain't I ,” was not reflective of the facts: I knew many cultivated speakers in most parts of the U.S., and the only time I ever heard them say ain't was in jocular contexts or in virtual quotations, like She ain't what she used to be . I must admit that my evidence was entirely impressionistic, but Gove provided no statistical support for his contention, either.

  • Gove did not participate in the planning or appear on the program, although two of his colleagues gave papers, Woolf on defining and Artin on pronunciation.

  • The biggest was that Gove had gone his merry way in producing what he considered to be a lexicon of the language but with little thought for those who were to use it: no one could call the MWIII “user-friendly” (certainly not in 1961, when, as far as I know, the expression had not yet gained currency):

  • All of this is a minor irritation to the user, but Philip Gove wanted to save space at all costs.


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