Grammar (Group 4)
Grammar (Group 4)
Grammar (Group 4)
Group 4
What is grammar?
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Part of speech
Nouns : People, objects, creatures, places, qualities, phenomena, and
abstract idea
Article : Words used with nouns to form noun phrases classifying those
things
Verbs : Used to refer various kinds of action and states involving people
and things in events
Part of speech
Adverbs : Used with verbs to provide more information about actions,
states and events
Example :
Split infinitive is a
The infinitive sentence that
in English has places another
the form to + word (usually an
the base form adverb) between
"to" and the verb
of the verb.
in the infinitive.
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Example sentence of a
split infitive :
Now, the other forms such it, the cat, cathy, the car,
the bird, the professor with cockney accent and many
more
The label for this category is "noun phrase"
Constituent Analysis
A grammatical analysis of how small constituents (or
components) go together to form larger constituents in
sentences
"An old man brought a shotgun to the wedding"
We can look at these nine constinuent at word levels such as an
(article), old (adjective), man (noun), brought (verb), etc but
how they are combined at phrase level
An old man brought brought a shotgun to to the
We don't consider such combunation as phrase in English.
Constituent Analysis
More likely, we form a folowing combination for
phrase
an old man, a shotgun which are noun phrase
(NP)
to the wedding, which is a prepositional phrase
(PP)
and brought a shotgun, which is a verb phrase
(VP)
Constituent Analysis
Labelled and Bracketed Analysis