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Part of Speech Exercises

Determine the part of speech of the words in the sentences.
Use the following part of speech labels: A, Adv, Cj, C, D, N, P, V

Alex/ talked/ to/ my/ best/ friend/ .

Determine the part of speech of the words in the sentences.
Use the following part of speech labels: A, Adv, Cj, C, D, N, P, V

You/ might/ suspect/ that/ Pat/ is/ a/ genius/ .

Determine the part of speech of the words in the sentences.
Use the following part of speech labels: A, Adv, Cj, C, D, N, P, V

The/ title/ of/ a/ book/ largely/

determines/ whether/ it/ will/ be/ successful/ or/ a/ flop/ .

Words

Verb	SUBJ	COMPS
snore	<NP>	<>
own	<NP>	<NP>
put	<NP>	<NP,NP>

When you look up the word scissors in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, you are given the following information about it:

Phonology	scissors
Part of speech	noun
Number	plural
Content	a tool for cutting paper ...

The following representation shows how we will structure the information in a word in this course:

Determine the syntactic categories of the following groups of words in the sentences.
Use the following labels: AP, AdvP, NP, PP, VP. Write "-" if the group of words does not form a constitutent.
Example: [S: Pat [VP: will [VP: wait [PP: for Alex]]]]

a. [ Alex [ talked [ to [ my best friend]]]]

b. [ [ The president] [ announced [CP: that [ there [ will [ be [ no further taxes]]]]]]].

A video on constituent tests

Analyze the following phrases:

read the paper

Head: Category:

Complement 1: Category:

Complement 2: Category:

Point added for a correct answer:
Points for an incorrect answer:
Ignore the questions' coefficients:

1 Was ist keine Nuss?

	Walnuss
	Erdnuss
	Apfel
	Pistazien
	Kastanie
	Orange

2 Wer erfand die Glühbirne?

	Thomas Alva Edison
	Frederick de Moleyns
	Heinrich Göbel
	nicht genauer bekannt

3. It is the task of English syntax to explain in a precise and principled fash.ion which strings of words native speakers of English accept as well formed English and which not.

4. This task would be easy to accomplish, if one could simply list all the English strings. But, unfortunately, one cannot do that, since there are infinitely many well formed English strings:

a. Mary is tired. Mary is very tired. Mary is very, very tired. Mary is very, very, very tired. . . .

b. Mary went to the store. Mary went to the store but Jill stayed home. Mary went to the store but Jill stayed home and Sue had the flu. . . .

5. So, it is impossible to list all and only the well formed strings of English words. But what is possible, is to find a property that all and only the strings of English have in common: they and only they are grammatical according to the Grammar of English! All other strings are ungrammat.ical according to the Grammar of English.

6. So, we need to concern ourselves with the Grammar of English. This is what this course is all about!

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