Object

• movement: I mainly concentrate on creating a nice shaped pattern, consistent throws to the same height, clean catches, no jerking arm movements.

• head: The woman's head jerked round to look at Mary, surprise registering on her ravaged face.

Adjective modifier

• myoclonic: They don't really annoy me and nothing like the myoclonic jerks which do show up on EEG.

• sudden: A sudden jerk will compress the nylon too far.

• physical: I can give you the works on physical jerks, Private lessons to ladies in slimming.

Modifies a noun

• reaction: No need for the knee jerk reaction week's prior.

• chicken: By the time we arrived, they had laid waste most of the kitchen's jerk chicken - we cleaned up the rest.

• etc: In most cases your resultant CD has distortion ( jerks etc ) in parts of your movie.

• response: The shift system is the result of knee jerk response to the European law.

Modifying Another Word

• violently: It was very alarming as she jerked violently and rolled around the cage.

• awake: Mrs. Su knocks on the door of Beibei's room and her husband jerks awake, quickly wiping the corner of his mouth.

• backward: Des started the electric motor, and immediately the milk float jerked backward.

• suddenly: However, do not count on this to save you, as the bar will suddenly jerk to one side.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: More often than not, the camera jerks around of its own accord, settling at appalling angles.

• off: I didn't even want to jerk off with my pillow.

Possessives

• reaction: The resulting ' knee jerk ' emotional reaction has the potential to use a great deal your personal energy.

Preposition: of

• limb: Some children may also have very frequent jerks of the limbs or trunk.

• arm: Focal jerking of one arm may occur in tight carotid stenosis.

Noun used with modifier

• knee: No need for the knee jerk reaction week's prior.

• muscle: They involve abrupt muscle jerks in part or all the body.