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Phrases and Sentences: Grammar
Phrases and Sentences: Grammar
Chapter 8
Grammatical or Ungrammatical:
1. The boy found the ball
2. The boy found quickly
3. The boy found in the house
4. The boy found the ball in the house
5. Disa slept the baby
6. Disa slept soundly
Find: Transitive verb (with object)
Sleep: Intransitive verb (no object)
Grammar
Types of grammar
Examples
moisture, policy
melt, remain
good, intelligent
to, near
slowly, now
Examples
A, an, the
very, more
always, perhaps
will, can
and, or
Phrases
NP : Noun Phrase
The car, a clever student
VP : Verb Phrase
study hard, play the guitar
PP : Prepositional Phrase
in the class, above the
earth
AP : Adjective Phrase
very tall, quite certain
Other categories
Grammatical Gender
Approaches
Prescriptive approach
Examples
You must not end a sentence with a preposition Who did you with?
You must not split an infinitive - to never ever go
Latins influence
Approaches
types of analysis:
Structural analysis
Immediate constituent analysis
Structural Analysis
Structural Analysis
More examples:
The child found a puppy in the garden
Sam kicked the ball.