Example sentences for: modifiers

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

  • I should not like to have to face the task of listing all the adverbs that might be used with the verb run , even if it is restricted to cars: smoothly, quietly, silently, uninterruptedly, fitfully, intermittently, efficiently, well, faultlessly, beautifully, perfectly, poorly, badly, sluggishly, economically, swiftly, rapidly, quickly --and then one must be prepared to add the multi-word phrasal modifiers, like without a hitch, as if it would never stop, like a clock, like clockwork , etc.

  • Connecting these ideas about the evolution of recombination modifiers to the question of recombination hotspots, we come to the possibility that individual hotspots may have arisen as a byproduct of linkage disequilibrium between genes on either side of the hotspot that were under selection.

  • It will be noticed that in each of these examples the meaning of the various modifiers is basically the same, but different words are used to express it, depending on the word that is modified.

  • To be sure, the technique of qualifying sentences with modifiers is nothing new.

  • Modifiers that had the same effect on both the mCul1 and the dominant negative PI3K phenotypes were discarded as they presumably affected the GAL4 driver.


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