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Examples of tensing

tensing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

There are others where in certain circumstances (marked tensing, for instance) finiteness cannot be attributed to non-verbal predicators.
Her long-standing habit of tensing the lower back muscles was too ingrained for her to develop strength in her lower abdomen.
We stop ourselves from expressing a feeling by tensing the muscles that oppose the movement that would express the feeling.
Place of articulation, manner of articulation, voicing, fronting, raising, rounding and tensing, where applicable, can bond or dissociate norms.
They accompany overall tensing of the limbs, clenching the fists, or other spasmodic movements.
The two dictators avoided tensing the rope too much not only because they professed a sort of mutual admiration.
This paper, however, will limit the discussion to the postlexical application of the tensing rule between phonological words, and after a lenis obstruent.
For example, anger often motivates the instantaneous production of an angry face or the tensing of arm and leg muscles.
The facial contortions of a person in pain would seem to contribute little to the escape or suppressive functions of body contortions and tensing elsewhere in the body.
Structures above the glottis, such as the ventricular or false vocal folds, may also be involved, including a general tensing of the laryngeal (and related) musculature.
Our account presupposes that once the derivational relationship was established, there could exist pairs where there is no vowel tensing since the underlying vowel in both words would be tense.
Rather, they are systematically related to aspects of his generally superior learning and use of regular past tensing, and very likely to aspects of his quantitatively superior competence.
Or even if one accepts his data, they raise the question of why such basic tensing processes should show such strong individual differences among normal subjects.
Fluoride has an effect on the latter, which has the immense and amazing capacity to keep tensing and flexing.
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