Analysing Sentences: An Introduction to English Syntax |
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Constituents | 7 |
Establishing constituents | 13 |
A difference between phrase and constituent | 19 |
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Adjective Phrase AdvP analysed appear auxiliary verb beside a stream bicycle chapter co-ordinate COMP context degree adverbs determiners direct object ditransitive verb Draw the phrase-marker dubious jokes English example exercises fact finite following sentences form a constituent functioning as subject grammatical sentence head noun head verb identify immediate constituents infinite interpretation intransitive Justen Justenand language lexical categories lexical verb Max and Adrian modal modifier monotransitive node NOM ART non-finite clause non-finite verb non-restrictive Notice Noun Phrase NP DET NOM NP VP Old Sam sunbathed omitted optional participle passive past tense phrasal PHRASE PHRASE PHRASE-b post-modifying pre-modifiers predicate present text pronoun question relative clause replace represented sequence of words set of sentences sister spotted those wildcats structure sub-category subject NP subject-auxiliary inversion subject-predicative subordinate clause sunbathed beside triangle notation ungrammatical Verb Group Verb Phrase Vgp ditrans Vgp NP Vgp trans VP Vgp WH-expression WH-questions WH-word