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In this practical course, you will learn how to teach your laptop the basic grammatical structures of English. For this purpose, we will use software that was developed here at Goethe University. The software is completely free of charge and it runs on all Windows, Mac OS, and Linux computers. (After the course, you may keep the software.) | In this practical course, you will learn how to teach your laptop the basic grammatical structures of English. For this purpose, we will use software that was developed here at Goethe University. The software is completely free of charge and it runs on all Windows, Mac OS, and Linux computers. (After the course, you may keep the software.) | ||
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== Warm-up Exercise== | == Warm-up Exercise== | ||
Revision as of 11:12, 12 April 2021
Warm-up Exercise
Sentences
(1) John [disappeared].
(2) The bottle [broke].
(3) Martha [stayed at the hospital].
(4) Fred [resides in Chicago].
(5) Robert [went to the hospital].
(6) Alice [moved into the room].
(7) Joe [saw Fred].
(8) Alice [broke the bottle].
(9) We [moved it into the room].
(10) Fred [took Alice to the hospital].
(11) John [sent Martha a check].
(12) We [gave Fred a wastebasket].
Syntactic Categories
S, NP, N, VP, V, PP, P, AP, A, D
Phrase Structure Rules
A phrase structure rule is well formed, if it is of one of the following forms
C0 -> C1
C0 -> C1 C2
C0 -> C1 C2 C3
and each C is one of the categories listed above.
The S rule
S -> NP VP
Task
Using only the syntactic categories listed above,
a. draw plausible phrase structure trees for the odd-numbered sentences. Assume that the bracketed expressions are VPs.
b. Write the phrase structure rules needed to license the phrase structure rules that you drew.