Sentences with the word Top?
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Examples
- «an ace reporter»; «a crack shot»; «a first-rate golfer»; «a super party»; «played top-notch tennis»; «an athlete in tiptop condition»; «she is absolutely tops»
- «his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty»; «the artist’s gifts are at their acme»; «at the height of her career»; «the peak of perfection»; «summer was at its peak»; «…catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame»; «the summit of his ambition»; «so many highest superlatives achieved by man»; «at the top of his profession»
- «The path ascended to the top of the hill»
- «Houses bearded the top of the heights»
- «he was afraid of a fire in the circus tent»; «they had the big top up in less than an hour»
- «bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a long top opening down the front»
- «they took a cable car to the top of the mountain»
- «the car was on the top floor»
- «They clawed their way to the top of the mountain»
- «it was a difficult climb to the top«
- «The path climbed all the way to the top of the hill»
- «he removed the top of the carton»; «he couldn’t get the top off of the bottle»; «put the cover back on the kettle»
- «The second officer covered the top floor»
- «the varnished table top dulled with time»
- «the box with the ancestors’ ashes was emplaced on the top shelf of the house altar»
- «The bad results were excluded from the report»; «Leave off the top piece»
- «an extraordinary desire for approval»; «it was an over-the-top experience»
- «they saw independence as the fast track to democracy»; «he took a fast track to the top of the corporate ladder»; «the company went off the fast track when the stock market dropped»
- «was first in her class»; «the foremost figure among marine artists»; «the top graduate»
- «set it flush with the top of the table»
- «he was at the top of his form»; «the team was off form last night»
- «there was a simple fret at the top of the walls»
- «a good grip on French history»; «they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities»; «he was in the grip of a powerful emotion»; «a terrible power had her in its grasp»
- «it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art»; «in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first»
- «he hit a jump shot from the top of the key»; «he dominates play in the paint»
- «She resides in Princeton»; «he occupies two rooms on the top floor»
- «Pack your tents to the top of the mountain»
- «top trees and bushes»
- «plane the top of the door»
- «The curtain ripped from top to bottom»; «pull the cooked chicken into strips»
- «They turned in a splendid effort»; «They turned in top jobs for the second straight game»
- «a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum»; «top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup»
- «Bob Dylan occupied the top slot for several weeks»; «she beat some tough competition for the number one slot»
- «he got a bright red top and string for his birthday»
- «the top was thick with dust»
- «the shoes fit me tip-top«
- «the top shelf»
- «the mower cuts off the tops of the grass»; «the title should be written at the top of the first page»
- «he screamed at the top of his lungs»
- «he stared as she buttoned her top«
- «a relief pitcher took over in the top of the fifth»
- «put your books on top of the desk»; «only the top side of the box was painted»
- «They topped off their dinner with a cognac»; «top the evening with champagne»
- «work your way through every problem or task»; «She was working on her second martini when the guests arrived»; «Start from the bottom and work towards the top«
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- The top of a hill
- Beet tops
- A box top, bottle top
- A pajama top
- At the top of one’s voice, the top of one’s career
- At the top in one’s profession
- The top of the crop, top of the morning
- Take it from the top
- The top drawer, top honors
- A fish topping 75 pounds
- I waited at the top of the stairs. [+ of]
- The bullet had entered the top part of the brain.
- I can’t reach the top shelf.
- …the plastic tops from aerosol containers.
- …a little shop at the top of the street. [+ of]
- Look at my new top.
- The vehicles have a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour.
- We started from the bottom and we had to work our way up to the top.
- So you want to be a top model.
- The United States will be at the top of the medal table. [+ of]
- Cleaning up the water supply is their top priority.
- He was Italy’s top scorer during the World Cup matches.
- It was the first time a Japanese manufacturer had topped the list for imported vehicles. [VERB noun]
- Imports topped £10 billion last month. [VERB noun]
- The holiest of their chapels are topped with gilded roofs. [be V-ed + with/by]
- How are you going to top that? [VERB noun]
- The publisher expected the book to sell 1,500 copies, tops.
- The top of a hill
- To be at the top of the class
- Carrot tops
- Put the top on the saucepan
- At the top of his career
- He’s the top of this organization
- We’ve got the top of this year’s graduates
- The top of the hour
- This amplifier has a good top response
- The top book in a pile
- A top night out
- To top a cake with whipped cream
- To top carrots
- We topped the mountain
- He tops the team
- The top shelf.
- To pay top prices.
- To win top honors in a competition.
- The sun had topped the horizon.
- That tops everything.
- King Henry must top the crowd noises in his St. Crispin’s Day speech.
- To top a sundae with whipped cream.
- To top a tall tree.
- After a day of hiking and swimming we slept like tops.
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In some languages, you can ask a question by changing only the intonation in the voice. This is not enough in English. In English, there is special word order in interrogative sentences.
Therefore, in English, when we see the interrogative word order, we already understand that this is a question and not a statement!
What is the interrogative word order? This is the order in which we put the auxiliary verb first in the sentence.
Take a look at these two examples:
Statement: I know you.
Question: Do I know you?
As you can see, this interrogative order still contains the main verb after the subject. That is, the subject and predicate remain in their usual order. But in the question, the predicate has an additional part: an auxiliary verb. And this auxiliary comes first.
The auxiliary verb in an interrogative sentence plays a huge role. The auxiliary verb depends on who we ask the question, who is the subject in our question.
Does she like you?
Did you throw your ring?
Have they been there before?
Will he work here someday?
Another important function of the auxiliary verb in the question is that the auxiliary verb indicates the tense. By changing the auxiliary verb, we change the meaning of the question.
Thus, if we want to know what a person is currently doing, we ask:
Do you live here?
If we are interested in the past of this person, we ask:
Did you live here?
Or we can ask about future plans:
Will you live here?
Word Order in Interrogative Sentence With the Verb To Be
We ask a question with the verb to be using the same scheme where we put an auxiliary verb at the beginning of the question.
But the main difference between to be and other verbs is that to be has no auxiliary verbs. The verb to be acts as an auxiliary verb for itself.
So to ask a question with to be we just put to be first before the subject. Compare:
I am going to spoil the plan!
Am I going to spoil the plan?
The only exception to this rule is when we form a question with the to be verb in the future.
The verb to be in the future has the form: Will be.
To ask a question with Will be, we put only Will in the first place, and be remains in its place.
Correct: Will you be there next time?
Incorrect: Will be you there next time?
Remember that we do not use auxiliary verbs with to be. Many English learners make the mistake of using auxiliary verbs to form a question with to be.
Correct: Is she here?
Incorrect: Does she here?
Incorrect: Does she is here?Correct: Were they in your school?
Incorrect: Did they in your school?
Incorrect: Did they were in your school?Correct: Are we friends?
Incorrect: Do we friends?
Incorrect: Do we are friends?
The verb to be in questions plays the same role as auxiliary verbs with ordinary verbs. The verb to be also changes depending on who is the subject in the sentence:
Is she your girlfriend?
Were they in your old team?
Will you be working as always?
Are we the people you are looking for?
Also, the verb to be indicates the tense we are asking about:
Past: Was she your friend?
Present: Is she your friend?
Future: Will she be your friend?
Look at all forms of the verb to be not to be mistaken when you use it:
Present:
- I am
- He is
- She is
- It is
- We are
- They are
- You are
Past:
- I was
- He was
- She was
- It was
- We were
- They were
- You were
Future:
- I will be
- He will be
- She will be
- It will be
- We will be
- They will be
- You will be
Word Order in Subject Question
A subject question has exactly the same word order as an affirmative sentence. But at the beginning, we use the question word who or what.
Who broke the vase?
Who told you the truth?
What fell to the roof?
Thus, it is the word who or what that plays the role of the subject in the sentence. But we do not know who exactly is the subject, who is this person, thing, or being. Therefore, we ask a question.
Compare the usual question in which we know who the subject is and the question to the subject.
Who did she ask about it? (The subject is she)
Who asked you about it? (The subject is who)What did he throw from the roof? (The subject is he)
Who threw something from the roof? (The subject is who)Who will you take with you to the dance? (The subject is you)
Who will take you to the dance? ((The subject is who)This is your car? (The subject is you)
Whose car is this? (Subject is Whose)
Most often, we use a singular verb after the word who or what. Because by asking a question to the subject, we mean that who or what is one person or thing.
Who works here?
We can use the main verb as we do it for the plural if we and our interlocutor understand exactly that who or what in the question means several people or objects:
Who were the people you are talking about?
Word Order in Short Answer and Full Answer
A short answer to a question in English also has its own specific order.
In English, it is not customary to answer questions shortly: Yes or No.
Question: Do you like the movie?
Answer: Yes.
This answer may be considered rude.
So, in English, it is customary to form an answer in this order:
- Affirmative or negative word.
- Subject.
- Auxiliary verb.
Question: Do you like the movie?
Answer: Yes, I do.
The word order in the answer above is considered correct and polite.
A full answer is even simpler. In a full answer, we keep the order of an affirmative or negative sentence. At the beginning of the sentence, we add the affirmative or negative words Yes or No.
- Affirmative or negative word.
- Subject
- Predicate.
- Object.
Question: Do you like the movie?
Answer: Yes, I like the movie. (Yes, I like / Yes, I like it)
If the answer is no, then we add an auxiliary verb with a negative particle not. In a full negative answer, the order looks like this:
- Affirmative or negative word.
- Subject
- Auxiliary verb + not.
- Predicate.
- Object.
Question: Do you like the movie?
Answer: No, I don’t like the movie. (No, I don’t like / No, I don’t like it)
In some cases, we can add an auxiliary verb even in an affirmative full answer if we want to emphasize the main verb.
Question: Do you like the movie?
Answer: Yes, I do like the movie.
In this example, the verb do underlines the main verb like. Such an answer seems to mean:
Yes, I really like the movie.
