Gradable example sentences

"Gradable" Example Sentences

1. Height is a gradable property; people can be taller or shorter.
2. Weight is also gradable; people weigh more or less.
3. Temperature is gradable; things can be warmer or cooler.
4. Intelligence is considered by many to be a gradable trait.
5. Knowledge and wisdom tend to increase gradually over time, making them gradable attributes.
6. People are gradable on scales of attractiveness, charisma, and likability.
7. Adjectives indicating gradable properties include tall, short, hot, cold, wise, and kind.
8. Adverbs like "very" and "somewhat" show gradability in adjectives.
9. "John is tall" vs. "John is very tall" demonstrate gradability of the adjective "tall."
10. Some properties, like gender, are not gradable; something either is or is not male or female.
11. Color is generally considered a non-gradable property; things are either red or not red.
12. The comparative and superlative forms of adjectives show their gradable nature.
13. "Tall" becomes "taller" and "tallest," indicating gradability of height.
14. Adjectives that cannot form comparatives and superlatives are generally not gradable.
15. "Unique" cannot be used as " uniquer" or " uniquiest" because uniqueness is not gradable.
16. Gradable adjectives typically have antonyms on the opposite end of the scale.
17. "Tall" has "short" as its antonym; "hot" has "cold" as its opposite gradable property.
18. The phrase "more or less" indicates that a property is gradable within a scale or range.
19. "The book is more or less interesting" shows that interestingness is gradable.
20. Many languages mark gradability morphologically with suffixes on adjectives.
21. In English, gradability is signaled syntactically rather than morphologically.
22. Degree modifiers are common syntactic markers of gradability in English.
23. Degree modifiers specify the gradable adjective's position on a scale.
24. "Very" and "extremely" indicate a higher degree; "somewhat" a lower degree.
25. Many nouns behave like gradable adjectives when used in a notional sense.
26. We can speak of being "more" or "less" of a friend, student, or leader.
27. Despite being nouns, terms like "friend" and "student" can function gradably.
28. Gradability indicates that a property allows for variation on a conceptual scale.
29. Scales may be continuous or consist of discrete levels, but either way imply gradability.
30. Adjectives like "full" have scales with distinct levels: empty, half-full, full, and overflowing.
31. Gradability depends more on conceptual potential than consistent usage in practice.
32. Even non-comparative adjectives imply a gradable scale, though it may not be evident.
33. Context often makes implicit scales explicit, revealing the underlying gradability.
34. Adjectives acquire gradability through metaphorical extensions of their literal meanings.
35. Abstract concepts tend to have more implicit scales and gradable interpretations.
36. "Happy" and "sad" have gradable scales of emotion despite nominal non-gradability.
37. Attributing gradability to a property involves establishing relevant comparison classes.
38. Across contexts and classes, properties may be considered gradable in some but not others.
39. Gradability rests on the human conceptualization of variation along an implicit or explicit scale.
40. Scalar adjectives allow for more or less, higher or lower positioning along that scale.
41. Scalar relationships play an important role in classification, categorization and judgment.
42. Only properties that admit of differences in degree can be considered truly gradable.
43. Degree modifiers signal whether gradable adjectives indicate slight, moderate or extreme cases.
44. The more a language marks gradability morphologically, the less it relies on syntax.
45. Nouns can acquire gradable interpretations through metaphor and notional similarity.
46. Non-comparatives like "old" imply gradability despite lacking comparative form.
47. Implicit scales emerge through associations and inferences about conceptual variation.
48. Classifying a property as gradable or non-gradable depends on context and perspective.
49. Abstract properties are often more gradable, as scales and degrees are largely subjective.
50. Gradability allows us to create meaningful distinctions and orderings within categories.
51. Some adjectives can be used gradably in certain senses but not others.
52. "Real" can be gradable when describing jokes but not when describing triangles.
53. High frequency of modifiers indicates higher degree of gradability for an adjective.
54. Nouns and verbs can also imply gradability via scalar models of conceptual variation.
55. Activities like "walking" and "running" imply gradable differences in speed and manner.
56. The ability to compare and measure differences reveals gradability of a property.
57. Gradability shows that properties vary in degree rather than kind along a scale.
58. Semantic broadening can result in new, gradable interpretations of lexical items.
59. Items gradable in one language may be non-gradable when directly translated into another.
60. Whether a property is gradable depends on how we conceptualize variation and difference.

Common Phases

1. On a gradable scale
2. More or less gradable
3. Vary in degree, not kind
4. Possess gradable qualities
5. Admit of gradations
6. Imply gradability
7. Highlight gradability
8. Signal gradability
9. Exhibit gradability
10. A gradable quantity