Syntax (Part 3)

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

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What if the student wrote his thesis ON acid instead of on paper? --- 3rd possible meaning.

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Artist You're right--it's definitely another possible meaning, but the tree structure for that meaning would be the exact same as the one used for the second meaning in the video (that the student wrote his thesis under the influence of acid). That is, the PP "on acid" would be connected to the VP node, as it is qualifying the action of writing (as a verb) not the thesis. Hope that helps!

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