On this page you'll find 5 example sentences with Layamon. Discover how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Layamon in a sentence
Context around Layamon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Layamon
- In this selection, "layamon" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, example and added stand out and add context to how "layamon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include about whether layamon would have and as in layamon. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "layamon" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with layamon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lewis wrote several prefaces to works of literature and poetry, such as Layamon's Brut. (15 words)
This may be a poetic inversion for the sake of meter, and therefore says little about whether Layamon would have felt the construction to be syntactically natural. (27 words)
Layamon added to the story when he adapted Wace's work into the Middle English Brut in the early 13th century, saying that the quarrel between Arthur's vassals led to violence at a Yuletide feast. (36 words)
There is some similarity between the chroniclers' description of the Round Table and a custom recorded in Celtic stories, in which warriors sit in a circle around the king or lead warrior, in some cases feuding over the order of precedence as in Layamon. (44 words)
However an object pronoun, as in the Layamon example above, would be unusual in modern English, perhaps because this might cause a listener to misunderstand the to as a preposition: : *And he called to him all his wise knights to him advise. (42 words)
Layamon added to the story when he adapted Wace's work into the Middle English Brut in the early 13th century, saying that the quarrel between Arthur's vassals led to violence at a Yuletide feast. (36 words)
Example sentences (5)
However an object pronoun, as in the Layamon example above, would be unusual in modern English, perhaps because this might cause a listener to misunderstand the to as a preposition: : *And he called to him all his wise knights to him advise.
Layamon added to the story when he adapted Wace's work into the Middle English Brut in the early 13th century, saying that the quarrel between Arthur's vassals led to violence at a Yuletide feast.
Lewis wrote several prefaces to works of literature and poetry, such as Layamon's Brut.
There is some similarity between the chroniclers' description of the Round Table and a custom recorded in Celtic stories, in which warriors sit in a circle around the king or lead warrior, in some cases feuding over the order of precedence as in Layamon.
This may be a poetic inversion for the sake of meter, and therefore says little about whether Layamon would have felt the construction to be syntactically natural.