multi-word

English language users will be most interested to hear that multi-word Ubiquity commands no longer require hyphens, the result of a new parsing engine being worked up for this release.

Ubiquity 0.5 Improves Language Powers, Adds Great Tutorial | Lifehacker Australia 2009

For example, in perfume as in wine, multi-word descriptors are the unspoken rule.

Scents And Sensibility Lettie Teague 2011

When you're too lazy to even compose a multi-word insult, you can simply cry Fail!

The End of Fail - Anil Dash 2009

Thanks Luiz – and, yes, most grammars create an ‘arch-category’ called multi-word verbs, within which both phrasal and prepositional verbs (not to mention phrasal-prepositional verbs, of the type: look forward to, get along with …) are sub-categorised, along with other anomolous constructions, such as “to make do” and de-lexicalised verb combos, as in ‘take care of’, ‘make fun of’ etc.

P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

If I remember correctly, Headway (at least the old old old editions) used to call them “multi-word verbs”, which at least avoids the issue of what the particle is exactly, right?

P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

If I remember correctly, Headway at least the old old old editions used to call them “multi-word verbs”, which at least avoids the issue of what the particle is exactly, right?

P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Thanks Luiz – and, yes, most grammars create an ‘arch-category’ called multi-word verbs, within which both phrasal and prepositional verbs not to mention phrasal-prepositional verbs, of the type: look forward to, get along with… are sub-categorised, along with other anomolous constructions, such as “to make do” and de-lexicalised verb combos, as in ‘take care of’, ‘make fun of’ etc.

P is for Phrasal Verb « An A-Z of ELT 2010

Having accomplished this somewhat successfully by the time he was in sixth grade, Rob started to string these multi-word sentences together to form paragraphs and then entire stories, stage plays, poems and songs, tending towards the science fiction, fantasy, comedy and mainstream fiction genres.

Chapter Seven – Fall 2008 Introduction « Write Anything 2008

Is it really self-evident that it is harder to deal with complex words than with multi-word phrases that convey the same information?

Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Quasartupilussuusinnaavoq! 2010

Plain English indirectly encourages writers to use multi-word verbs instead of their one-word equivalents.

Writing for a global audience « Musings from an overworked translator 2009