It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.

We are hoping for a prodefendant verdict.

We crossed to the other side of the road.

Standing again, he pelts Kyle in the stomach [with a snowball], who pelts Dad on the arm.