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How to pronounce “expressive

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Pronunciation guide for expressive

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of expressive with real speech in context.
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8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Why Him? Why Her?have uh people who are expressive of
Definition summary
Effectively conveying thought or feeling.

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How to pronounce expressive

Why Him? Why Her?

have uh people who are expressive of

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “expressive

Meaning

  • [Adjective]
  • Effectively conveying thought or feeling.
  • (linguistics) Conveying the speaker's emotions and/or attitudes, in addition to the denotative or literal meaning.
  • (programming) Able to represent a number of ideas or concepts.
  • [Noun]
  • (linguistics) Any word or phrase that expresses (that the speaker, writer, or signer has) a certain attitude toward or information about the referent.
  • (linguistics, more narrowly) A word or phrase, belonging to a distinct word class or having distinct morphosyntactic properties, with semantic symbolism (for example, an onomatopoeia), variously considered either a synonym, a hypernym or a hyponym of ideophone.

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