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22nd February, 2020

Prezie Grammar Analysis

See a full grammatical analysis of a text using Prezie in a new way which allows for infinite zoom and …

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22nd February, 2020

Verb Phrase (VP) Analysis

The Verb Phrase (VP) consists of a main (lexical) verb with, optionally, a number of auxillary verbs in front. (AUX) VERB …

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17th February, 2020

Noun Phrase (NP) Analysis

A Noun Phrase consists of a head noun, and optionally a determiner, some pre-modification and post-modification. Here is an analysis …

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30th January, 2020

The Grammar Family

The Grammar family has been around for as long as this sentence has. The family is headed by Grandma Syntax …

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25th January, 2017

“swathes of the country”

“swathes of the country” is a noun phrase (NP). “swathes” is the head noun. This head is post-modified by “of …

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18th February, 2016

Clauses

Structure of the Clause What is a clause? All languages are able to talk about ‘things’. That is, we can …

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17th February, 2016

Punctuation

Punctuation is the use of small typographical symbols ( .  , ; :  ) to segment and conjoin textual items …

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3rd February, 2016

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

Is this a sentence? If so, what is the first NP? Where is the VP? “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo …

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26th January, 2016

Genericness (NPs)

Noun phrases can be said to have generic reference if they refer to the class of objects represented by the …

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20th January, 2016

‘The next bus’

‘The next bus’ Headnoun – ‘bus’ Determiner phrase ‘The next’ = Central determiner (the) + Postdeterminer (next)

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17th December, 2015

Knock knock

Knock knock Who’s there? Grandma Grandma who?

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