"1987. Audi also introduced a permanently all-wheel-driven road-going car, the Audi Quattro, in 1980. Audi's chassis engineer, Jörg Bensinger, had noticed in winter tests in Scandinavia that a vehicle used by the German Army, the Volkswagen Iltis, could beat any high-performance Audi. He proposed developing a four-wheel-drive car, that would also be used for rallying to improve Audi's conservative image. The Audi Quattro system became a feature on production cars. In 1987, Toyota also developed a car built for competition in rally campaigns. A limited number of road-going FIA Homologation Special Vehicle Celica GT-Four (known as Toyota Celica All-Trac Turbo"
"pronouncer will read a series of clues to a word. The aim of the game is to work out the word, buzz in to identify it then spell it correctly. Here there are 4 teams of four and the team that cannot get all four spellers through before the other three teams will go to the elimination round. The fourth challenge is done using two massive keyboards, and is called Word Duel. In this challenge, two spellers will step up to spell against each other at the same time using a giant touchpad. The pronouncer will say a word and"
"series of events or movie titles are displayed, and they must be arranged smallest to largest or chronologically. Five words or phrases all referring to the same movie appear onscreen. Both teams try to name the movie the phrases reference. A fill-in-the-blank question is asked. Both teams bet 5, 15, 30, or all of their points; if they answer the question correctly, they gain that number of points, but if their answer is incorrect, they lose that number of points. The game was released on 20 November 2004. It was met with positive reviews. ""Kidz World"" awarded the game 5"
"""to whom you were talking"" is a post-modifier (a relative clause in this case). Notice the order of the pre-modifiers; the determiner ""that"" must come first and the noun adjunct ""college"" must come after the adjectival modifiers. Coordinating conjunctions such as ""and"", ""or"", and ""but"" can be used at various levels in noun phrases, as in ""John, Paul, and Mary""; ""the matching green coat and hat""; ""a dangerous but exciting ride""; ""a person sitting down or standing up"". See below for more explanation. Noun phrases can also be placed in ""apposition"" (where two consecutive phrases refer to the same thing),"
"four by four matrix of letters from the English alphabet. Players form meaningful English words by dragging a finger across the letters in the required order to score points. Each letter is assigned an individual score depending on its occurrences in the possible words. Each game lasts for two minutes. Wordament takes place round the clock, and internet (WiFi) connection is required to play the game. The game consists of various rounds. In the Speed Round, every word has an associated score of 13 points regardless of its length or components. In the Either/Or Round, a particular tile out of"
"the car selection menu, descriptions and stats of each vehicle can be seen, along with the option to choose among 4 colors. Once a car is viewed, a sound effect unique to that car is played in the background. Each character will cruise around the city, waiting for a challenge. This excludes Moses, who helps the player begin the Career Mode, as well as the four champions who will seek you out after all predecessors are beaten. They will talk to the player or ""think out loud"" during pre-race cut-scenes, during which the player can discover their motives, learn the"
"two scrolling ""word wheels"", one for verbs and one for nouns. For example, the verb ""congratulate"" may be selected in one wheel, and the noun ""Jareth"" in the other: this inputs the command ""congratulate Jareth"". Based on the player's items and location, the available verbs and nouns change context-sensitively. Lucasfilm Games began to design ""Labyrinth: The Computer Game"" in 1985. Company head George Lucas had requested a tie-in video game for the movie of the same name, which was under production at Lucasfilm. As was common with Lucasfilm Games projects, Lucas himself provided very little direction to the team. ""Labyrinth"""
"""Word of Mouth"" used a real computer display from a BBC Micro. This computer also provided the on-screen captions and scores and was nicknamed Eugene, after the show's original programmer Eugene Crozier. The competition was a knockout tournament; the eventual winners of the series would be presented with a computer (usually a BBC Master) for their school. Celebrity episodes of the show were also aired, featuring cast members from ""Grange Hill"" and ""EastEnders"". ""First Class"" was notable for its use of video games; such footage (of arcade games in particular) was a rarely seen on UK television at the time"
"Wellington, broccoli raab, Cherries Jubilee, Chicken Tetrazzini, Crêpe Suzette, Eggs Benedict, Oysters Rockefeller, peach Melba, steak tartare, and duck a l'orange. Identifying numbers (with or without the word ""number""), and sometimes letters, appear after the noun in many contexts. Examples are ""Catch-22""; warrant officer one, chief warrant officer two, etc.; Beethoven's Symphony No. 9; ""Call of Duty Three"", ""Rocky Four"", ""Shrek the Third"", Generation Y. (For appellations such as ""Henry the Fourth"", often written ""Henry IV"", see above.) Other common cases where modifiers follow a head noun include: In the plural forms of expressions with postpositive adjectives or other postpositive"
"names of places, characters, and organizations, and in advertising and slogans. Many restaurant and shop names use puns: Cane & Able mobility healthcare, Sam & Ella's Chicken Palace, Tiecoon tie shop, Planet of the Grapes wine and spirits, Curl Up and Dye hair salon, as do books such as ""Pies and Prejudice"", comics ("""") and films (""Good Will Hunting""). The Japanese anime ""Speed Racer's"" original title, ""Mach GoGoGo!"" refers to the English word itself, the Japanese word for five (the Mach 5's car number), and the name of the show's main character, Go Mifune. This is also an example of"
"phrases, etc.) on the screens before them. All four celebrities write down a one-word clue on index cards without any discussion, raising their hand when they have completed their clue. Both celebrities on the team playing first show and read their clues to their team-mate, who must then guess the message. If incorrect, play then passes to the opposing team who do the same. If the opposing contestant fails to guess the message, one more round of clue-writing and -reading is performed, and then the message is discarded if not guessed. A correct answer is worth one point. The first"
"overused business buzzwords"" – for example, ""This product will incentivize big data and demonstrate innovative performance in the playing field."" ""Forbes"" hosts an annual ""Jargon Madness"" game, in which 32 of ""corporate America's most insufferable expressions"" are played off against each other in a bracketed, basketball-style tournament to determine the buzzword of the year. LinkedIn publishes an annual list of buzzwords to avoid in creating résumés – ""trite, empty words that may sound good to your ear but say almost nothing"". The 2014 list: ""motivated"", ""passionate"", ""creative"", ""driven"", ""extensive experience"", ""responsible"", ""strategic"", ""track record"", ""organizational"", and ""expert"". When people are"
"the ""start word"" (synonymous, antonymous, semantic...). This was also the way the game was originally devised by Lewis Carroll when it first appeared in ""Vanity Fair"". Some variations also allow the player to add or remove letters, and to rearrange the same letters into a different order (an anagram). Donald Knuth used a computer to study word ladders of five-letter words. He believed that three-letter word ladders were too easy (although Lewis Carroll found six steps were required for APE to evolve into MAN), and that six-letter word ladders were less interesting, since relatively few pairs of six-letter words could"
"including those below. (All puzzles published from October 23, 1996, on are available to online subscribers to the ""Times"" crossword.) A few crosswords have achieved recognition beyond the community of crossword solvers. Perhaps the most famous is the November 5, 1996 puzzle by Jeremiah Farrell, published on the day of the U.S. presidential election, which has been featured in the movie ""Wordplay"" and the book ""The Crossword Obsession"" by Coral Amende, as well as discussed by Peter Jennings on ABC News, featured on CNN, and elsewhere. The two leading candidates that year were Bill Clinton and Bob Dole; in Farrell's"
"""by"", ""before"", ""after"", ""during"", ""through"", ""in spite of"" or ""despite"", ""between"", ""among"", etc. A preposition is usually used with a noun phrase as its complement. A preposition together with its complement is called a prepositional phrase. Examples are ""in England"", ""under the table"", ""after six pleasant weeks"", ""between the land and the sea"". A prepositional phrase can be used as a complement or post-modifier of a noun in a noun phrase, as in ""the man in the car"", ""the start of the fight""; as a complement of a verb or adjective, as in ""deal with the problem"", ""proud of oneself"";"
"Notice that in English, simple adjectives are usually used as premodifiers, with occasional exceptions such as ""galore"" (which always appears after the noun) or the adjectives ""immemorial"" and ""martial"" in the phrases ""time immemorial"" and ""court martial"" (the latter comes from French, where most adjectives are postmodifiers). Sometimes placement of the adjective after the noun entails a change of meaning: compare ""a responsible person"" and ""the person responsible"", or ""the proper town"" (the appropriate town) and ""the town proper"" (the area of the town as properly defined). It is sometimes possible for a modifier to be separated from its head"
"There are also twice as many tiles with a slightly different distribution.* This game uses cards for tiles where players throw down a card with a letter to change a four-letter word to another four-letter word by placing the card on top of one of the four piles of cards that form the word. So if the word shown is LACE, one player can put the M on the L to make it MACE and the next player could put a Z on the C to make the word MAZE and so on. Scoring is based on how many words"
"Catch Phrase (game) Catch Phrase is a word guessing party game commercially available from Hasbro. Initially, the game consisted of a timer and a plastic disc that displayed one word at a time. Later, stand-alone electronic devices with built-in random lists of word phrases were made available. The game is played in two teams. The goal for each player is to get their team to say the word or word phrase displayed in the disc. One member of a team starts the timer and tries to get his or her team to guess the displayed word or phrase. A clue-giver"
"""Big Five"" to reflect the sheer number of personality-related terms encompassed by each of these five distinct factors. One of these, agreeableness, was defined by a number of personality-related words similar to those present in earlier and more recent manifestations of the construct; examples include ""friendly,"" ""good-natured,"" ""cooperative,"" ""trustful,"" ""nurturing,"" ""sociable,"" and ""considerate."" Beginning in the 1970s, Paul Costa and Robert McCrae began researching the development of personality assessments based on factor models. Beginning with cluster analyses of Cattell's 16 Personality Factors, Costa and McCrae initially settled on a three-factor model of personality. These three factors were neuroticism (vs. emotional"
"experts, suggesting the involvement of different processes to store movements depending on motor experience, namely verbal for controls and motor for experts. In research focused on the approach and avoidance effect, people showed an approach effect for positive words. In the ""positive toward condition,"" participants moved positive words toward the center of the screen and negative words away. In the ""negative toward condition,"" participants moved negative words toward the center and positive words away. Participants were given feedback about their accuracy at the end of each of the 4 experimental blocks. In the first experiment the word at the center"
"person. In April, ""Top Gear""'s executive producer Andy Wilman apologised for the racist remark. In July 2014 Ofcom ruled that the BBC had breached broadcasting rules by including this offensive racial term. In May 2014, there were complaints and calls for Clarkson to be sacked after it was revealed that he recited ""Eeny, meeny, miny, moe; catch a nigger by his toe"" as a children's rhyme on an unaired take from the show. Clarkson denied having used the word, then apologised when a previously unbroadcast clip revealed him doing so. ""Top Gear"" also received extensive criticism in late October 2014"
"a phrase containing it) is brought to the front of the clause: ""What did you see?"" (the interrogative word ""what"" comes first even though it is the object); ""The man to whom you gave the book..."" (the phrase ""to whom"", containing the relative pronoun, comes to the front of the relative clause; for more detail on relative clauses see English relative clauses). Fronting of various elements can also occur for reasons of focus; occasionally even an object or other verbal complement can be fronted rather than appear in its usual position after the verb, as in ""I met Tom yesterday,"
"2006. The 50 words and phrases were: The second Wordhunt was launched in January 2007, and the results featured in a second series of ""Balderdash and Piffle"", which was broadcast in Spring 2007. The forty words and phrases, divided into six themes, are: Man's Best Friend Put Downs and Insults Spend a Penny Fashionistas X Rated One Sandwich Short Who Were They? Dodgy Dealings Wordhunt Wordhunt was a national appeal run by the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", looking for earlier evidence of the use of 50 words and phrases in the English language. New evidence found by members of the public"
"North Wales"", whose incoherent letters usually mistake the chairman for another Radio 4 presenter or media personality. ""Dear Libby"" (she writes), ""why oh why ... very nearly spells YOYO"", or ""Dear Mr. Titchmarsh, never let them tell you that size isn't important. My aunt told me that, but then all my new wallpaper fell off."" Finchley Central and Mornington Crescent became popular in the United Kingdom as a play-by-mail pastime, and in the 1980s were played by post in a number of play-by-mail magazines. One format involved a series of elimination rounds, with everyone except the winner of the current"
"a letter, which they would memorize on their way to the next part of the race, the Laser Matrix, preceded by a computer where each player had to log in by hitting the letter key matching their exit. Each player then had to type in four words with a common thread, however each key corresponded to a different letter according to a code (such as each key giving the preceding letter). After cracking the code and typing in the four words, each player had to cross a corridor of shifting laser beams, where breaking each beam resulted in a seven-second"
"their friends, their friends would speak about past events and their interesting stories, where the celebrities would try to clue in on the person. However, the celebrities only see the screen of the MC's and not the audience of schoolmates. Slogan: ""친구가 있어, 행복한 목요일, 해피투게더 프렌즈!"" ""(Because friends are here, Thursday is happy, Happy Together Friends!)"" In this game, ""Study Quick, If Incorrect, Metal Trays Will Hit!"" (벼락치기, 달달 외워~ 못 외우면 쟁반 맞아!) or in the pilot ""Study Quick, If Incorrect, Raise Your Hands!"" (벼락치기, 달달 외워~ 못 외우면 손들어!), the two celebrities and their friends will compete"
"to the measurement of composure. These are excitability (composed vs. excitable), calmness (calm vs. anxious), tension (relaxed vs. tense), and poise (poised vs. nervous). Like composure, extroversion is composed of four seemingly synonymous values. These are aggressiveness, boldness, talkativeness (i.e. talkative vs. silent), and voice (i.e., verbal vs. quiet). Dr. McCroskey's research concluded that of the five dimensions of credibility, competence, character and sociability were the most important in establishing and maintaining credibility. Initial credibility is established before a speaker appears before an audience to deliver a particular message. If there are few people in the audience who know the"
"sexy voice that attracted him - and she happens to be dining at the next table, so that's the end of Miss Brahms's upward mobility. Captain Peacock then calls over the waiter to request a slight change in their order: ""Egg and chips four times, and a pot of tea."" The dish's status as a cornerstone of authentic British cuisine is solidified by its regular inclusion in modern popular culture. It features regularly in television depictions of British life, such as the long-running soap series Coronation Street, where it constitutes part of recurring character Johnny ""Doc"" Docherty's infamous catch phrase,"
"""my mother’s"", which can precede noun phrases. Verb phrases can be preceded by quantifiers such as ""each"", and ""all"". Adjective phrases and adverbial phrases can be preceded by degree words such as ""very"", ""extremely"", ""rather"" and ""quite"". These specifiers are so called because they further qualify the category of the head - in these examples nouns and adverbs - in the phrase. For example: Different form classes can occupy a specifier position, typically determiners and possessors in noun phrases (N″), and an auxiliary verb in a verb phrase (V″). [Spec, CP] is a Wh-movement landing site. Wh-movement is moving the"
"Josh Wise's NASCAR car as part of a sponsorship deal. Doge has also been referenced by members of the United States Congress, a safety video for Delta Air Lines, a Google Easter egg, and the video for the song ""Word Crimes"" by ""Weird Al"" Yankovic. Doge uses two-word phrases in which the first word is almost always one of five modifiers (""so"", ""such"", ""many"", ""much"", and ""very""), and the departure from correct English is to use the modifier with a word that it cannot properly modify. For example, ""Much respect. So noble."" uses the doge modifiers but is not ""proper"""
"""ROAD"", ""TEST"", ""YEAR"" and ""BOOK"". Subsequent spreads seemingly had random letters, starting with ""SOYO"" and ""UTHI"". The curious noticed that the letters spelled out a message. May's original message, when punctuated, reads: ""So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up; it's a real pain in the arse."" The editors of ""Autocar ""missed the 'joke' and only became aware of it when readers started calling in about it, thinking there might be a prize. His past television credits include presenting ""Driven"" on Channel 4 in 1998, narrating an eight-part BBC One series called ""Road"
"adjectives can also be used as personality descriptors. The occurrence of thousands of adjectives in English is an attestation of the subtleties in descriptions of persons and their behavior available to speakers of English. Roget's Thesaurus is an early attempt to classify most adjectives into categories and was used within this context to reduce the number of adjectives to manageable subsets, suitable for factor analysis. Osgood and his colleagues performed a factor analysis of large collections of semantic differential scales and found three recurring attitudes that people use to evaluate words and phrases: evaluation, potency, and activity. Evaluation loads highest"
"plus optional specifiers, complements (not including subject complements), and adjuncts. For example: The first example contains the long verb phrase ""hit the ball well enough to win their first World Series since 2000""; the second is a verb phrase composed of the main verb ""saw"", the complement phrase ""the man"" (a noun phrase), and the adjunct phrase ""through the window"" (a prepositional phrase). The third example presents three elements, the main verb ""gave"", the noun ""Mary"", and the noun phrase ""a book"", all which comprise the verb phrase. Note, the verb phrase described here corresponds to the predicate of traditional"