Syntax (Part 2)

A brief overview of lexical categories, phrase structure rules, and syntactic tree structures.

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Tree diagrams represent syntactic meaningful groups in slow motion. Adult students are now aware of all the syntactic structures that were manufactured blindly in their minds during their childhood.( University lecturer in English and linguistics)

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This is the first time that the phrases inside phrases gets clear. So . My is a determiner. The is. These I didn't know...N everything after a verb is a verb phrase. Thanks a lot

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hello. thank you for your easy to understand explanation. could you tell me the reason why you divided this tree diagram(about 7 min) into three??

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And is ‘my’ in ‘my pjamas’ a possessive pronoun or possessive adjective?

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i love te way you explain your content, surely i can say you're far good than my all englisg teachers who taught me through my all studies. please draw a tree diagram of this sentence : The house on the hill collapsed in the wild.

[@evanashworth490]

It's tough to diagram sentences here, but the subject would be a big noun phrase "the house on the hill", which consists of the noun phrase "the [determiner] house [noun]" and the prepositional phrase "on the hill", which consists of the preposition "on" and the noun phrase "the [determiner] hill [hill]. The verb phrase would be "collapsed in the wild", which consists of the verb "collapsed" and the prepositional phrase "in the wild", which consists of "in" [preposition] and the noun phrase "the" [determiner] "wild"[noun]. Note here that "wild" is a noun in this sentence, not an adjective. I hope that helps!

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