syntax

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Syntax

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a set of rules for or an analysis of the syntax of a language.

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grammar

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the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general, usually taken as consisting of syntax and morphology (including inflections) and sometimes also phonology and semantics.

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constituents

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a linguistic part of a larger sentence, phrase, or clause.

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Phrases

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a group of words which act together as a grammatical unit.

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pronominalisation

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the process or fact of using a pronoun instead of another sentence constituent (such as a noun or noun phrase)

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pro-form

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a word or phrase that can take the place of another word (or word group) in a sentence.

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wh-pronoun

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We use interrogative pronouns to ask questions. They are: who, which, whom, what and whose. These are also known as wh-words.

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movement

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Another such test for constituency

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coordination test

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Coordination is one of the traditional diagnostic tests for constituent structure. If a string x is able to conjoin with a similar string, this is taken to mean that x is a constituent, while if this is not possible, it suggests that x is not a constituent.

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gapping

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is a type of ellipsis that occurs in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures.

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sentence-fragment test

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A sentence fragment is a group of words that cannot stand alone as a sentence because it does not express a complete thought.

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head

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is the key word that determines the nature of a phrase (in contrast to any modifiers or determiners

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prepositional

phrases

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a modifying phrase consisting of a preposition and its object.

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adjective phrases

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An adjective phrase is a group of words headed by an adjective that describes a noun or a pronoun. Interactive Examples of Adjective Phrases.

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verb phrases

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the part of a sentence containing the verb and any direct or indirect object, but not the subject.

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adverb phrases

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is simply a group of two or more words that function as an adverb in a sentence.

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projections

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Syntacticians say that the
head projects its properties onto the phrase as a whole (which is also the reason
why phrases are often called projections of their head).

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word-classes,

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English: nouns, determiners, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions.

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syntactic categories,

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What is syntactic category?
A syntactic category is a set of expressions that have very similar syntactic properties: word order, and cooccurrence requirements

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parts-of-speech

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a category to which a word is assigned in accordance with its syntactic functions. In English the main parts of speech are noun, pronoun, adjective, determiner, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, and interjection.

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lexical categories.

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A lexical category is a syntactic category for elements that are part of the lexicon of a language. These elements are at the word level.

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determiners

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a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.

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phrase structure rules

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re a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language’s syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957

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subordinate clauses.

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a clause, typically introduced by a conjunction, that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause

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clause

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a unit of grammatical organization next below the sentence in rank and in traditional grammar said to consist of a subject and predicate.

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Sentences

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a set of words that is complete in itself, typically containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question, exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses.

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matrix clause

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a matrix clause is a clause that contains a subordinate clause.

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main

clause

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a clause that can form a complete sentence standing alone, having a subject and a predicate.

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predicate

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the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., went home in John went home ).

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subject-verb agreement

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o the relationship between the subject and predicate of the sentence

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case forms

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forms that mark the grammatical function of noun phrases
in a sentence or phrase

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transitive verbs

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What is transitive verb and examples?

A transitive verb is a verb that requires an object to receive the action

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intransitive verbs

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verbs  that  cannot  take  
an  object  (e.g.  sleep,  laugh)

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di-

transitive

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In (48) the verbs write, prepare and introduce have one object each, but there are
also verbs that can take two objects, like give, or show

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direct object

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is a word or phrase that receives the action of the verb

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indirect

object

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a noun or pronoun that indicates to whom or for whom the action of a verb in a sentence is performed.

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adverbial

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a word or phrase functioning like an adverb.

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complement

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a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression

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predicative complements

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completes the meaning of a sentence by giving information about a noun

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adjunct

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a thing added to something else as a supplementary rather than an essential part.