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Re: What are the two 1st immediate constituents of the sentences bellow? Help please!

suggestibility — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:47:49 GMT

Immediate constituent analysis (ICA) is a theory of grammar that use sentences as made up of layers of constituents.

Example: He put the book on the table.

First two immediate constituents are (He = Noun phrase) and (put the book on the table = Verb Phrase)

Re: What are the two 1st immediate constituents of the sentences bellow? Help please!

AlpheccaStars — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:32:33 GMT

Do you want a syntactical analysis or corrections to these sentences? Here is some syntax:

Down the hillside (prepositional phrase, adverbial) were rolling (main verb phrase) the stones. (noun phrase, subject)

In this part (prepositional phrase, adverbial) of the garden (prepositional phrase, adjectival) was buried (main verb phrase, passive mood, past tense) the body (noun phrase, subject) of the victim. (prepositional phrase, adjectival)

What is said about her in this book (clause, subject) is (linking verb) unbelievable.(predicate adjective)

What (subject) is said about (verb phrase, passive mood, present tense), her (direct object of phrasal verb) in this book (prepositional phrase, adverbial).

analyse and differences

ericsteef — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:27:39 GMT

f 1 She stopped looking for a way out.

2 She stopped to look for a way out.

my analying to these sentences is like this:

sentence f1 : "She" pronoun functioning as subject
"stopped" is main verb
"looking" i don't know what is it ,it could be gerund,but can we call it second main verb?or adjective?
"for a way out" is prepositional phrase,consist of the preposition "for" and the noun phrase "a way". "out" is an adverb.

the first sentence means that she gave up finding an exit.
the second sentence means that she stopped walking to find where is the exit.

is my analysing correct? and what is the syntatic analyse of the second sentence?

Re: adjective phrases

dazzaq07 — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:42:25 GMT

Could ye please help me with these questions

State which ones can be noun phrases

__ ran through the park

The joggers

Susan

My friend from Cork

The man who we interviewed

verb phrases

That man__

smiled

likes ice cream

walked the dog through the park

baked me a cake

can lift 200 pounds

believes the earth is flat

Adjective phrase

John is__

smart

very rude

certain to win

taller than his father

review

somer — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:49:02 GMT

3a) A cat ate the small animal.

3b) A cat is a small animal.

The syntactic analyses of the two sentences are differents. In the sentence 3a) we have (s, v, do) while, in the second sentence 3b) we have (s, v (copular), sP).

In 3a) âa cat âis noun phrase (a is determiner indefinite article, cat is head noun of noun phrase âa catâ), âateâ is verb in past simple tense,â the small animal â is noun phrase consist of determiner âtheâ, âsmallâ is adjective , âanimalâ is the head noun of the noun phrase, all the noun phrase functions as direct object.

In 3b) âa catâ is noun phrase (a is determiner indefinite article, cat is head noun of noun phrase âa catâ) function as subject, âisâ copular verb in simple present tense,â a small animalâ noun phrase consist of the indefinite determiner âaâ , the adjective small , and the head noun of the noun phrase âanimalâ, the noun phrase function as subject predicative.

Differences in the meaning: the first sentence means that there was a cat and it ate the small animal "the small animal" should be mentioned before, or known to the reader, while the second sentence means that a cat is a kind of animal and it is small. We are talking generally here.

Re: what type of grammer pattern behind this sentence?

AlpheccaStars — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:34:34 GMT

Nithila
Â A U.S. newspaper says the nation's twohighest-ranking intelligence officials expect to be replaced whenPresident-elect Barack Obama takes office in January.
Â
what type of grammer pattern behind this sentence?

Â A U.S. newspaper: -> subject, main clause

Â says -> verb, main clause. The rest of the sentence is a dependent clause, direct object of "says"

Â nation's two highest-ranking intelligenceÂ officialsÂ -> noun phrase, subject, dependent clause

expect Â -> verb,Â dependentÂ Â clause

Â to be replaced --> infinitive phrase; passive voice, direct object,Â dependentÂ Â clause

Â when President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January.Â -> dependent clause, adverb, modifying infinitive "replace"

Â President-elect Barack ObamaÂ -> noun phrase, subject, dependent clause

Â takesÂ -> verb,Â dependentÂ Â clause

Â officeÂ -> noun, direct object, dependent clause

Â in January. -> prepositional phrase, adverb,Â modifying verb "take"

What types of phrase have been underlined?

ericsteef — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:45:46 GMT

I answered this question i just need someone check my answer and tell me if there a mistake and what is the correction of it.

What types of phrase have been underlined? Analyse the phrases and give information about what elements they contain and what sort of words they consist of.

Hercule Poirot made his first appearance in The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Participial Phrase called upon by his friend Hastings, to solve a most mysterious murder. This Belgian refugee from the First World War began his career as a police officer - Christie felt it only fitting that he had a professional background as it would explain his knowledge of police proceedings when he later became a private detective. He began his private career on the continent, which is where he formed his lifelong friendship with Hastings.

Poirot would be the first to call himself a great man - he has never been known for his modesty - but with such success in his career he is quite justified in his opinion! He finishes each case with a dramatic dÃ©nouement, satisfying his own ego and confirming to all, that he is truly âthe greatest mind in Europe.â His love of elegance, beauty, and precision, as well as his eccentric mannerisms are often ridiculed by the local bumbling policemen, but it is always Poirot who has the last word!

Christie's inspiration for Poirot lay behind the Belgian refugees who had escaped the war and made their home in the Parish of Torre. Christie had seen how the locals had opened their arms to them and how some, not understanding the British way of life, preferred to do things their own way. Christie decided to make Poirot more mature, a decision she would later regret; âthe result is that my fictional detective is well over a hundred by now.â

But not even Christie could ever have imagined how popular Poirot would become, nor how many stories she would write about him. He would star in thirty-three novels and fifty-four short stories, including some of Christieâs best such as Murder on the Orient Express, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Death on the Nile.

Poirot deserves his place in crime fiction history and this was certainly achieved on his death in 1975; Poirot became the only fictional character in history to be honoured with an obituary on the front of The New York Times!

(Adapted from the official Agatha Christie page (http://uk.agathachristie.com)

a professional background:

it is NP âaâ is indefinite article function as determiner.âProfessionalâ is adjective,â

a professionalâ is a premodifier of the noun phrase, âbackground âis the head noun of the noun phrase.

2-Christie's inspiration for Poirot :

it is NP âChristieâsâ is noun of the noun phrase form functions as Premodifier ,â inspirationâ the head noun of the noun phrase âfor Poirotâ i

2-Christie's inspiration for Poirot :

it is NP âChristieâsâ is noun of the noun phrase form functions as Premodifier ,â inspirationâ the head noun of the noun phrase âfor Poirotâ is Prep: P âforâ preposition âPoirotâ noun and all the phrase âfor Poirotâ is the postmodifeir of the noun phrase.

3-More mature:

adjective phrase in its comparative form consists of âmoreâ determiner function as premodifier of the adjective phrase and âmatureâ adjective is the head of the adjective phrase.

Could have imagined:

verb phrase consists of, âcouldâ modal auxiliary verb, âhaveâ grammatical auxiliary, imagined stative verb in past participle form and all the phrase in the present perfective tense.

In thirty-three novels:

prepositional phrase consists of preposition âinâ,â thirty three" Post determinerâ âNovelsâ is the head noun of the noun phrase.

Re: Analyse the sentence syntactically in terms of clause elements.

AlpheccaStars — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:56:07 GMT

Through a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments, complex phrase- adverb

further dissected
Through - preposition
a mixture of anthropological analysis and her own unorthodox experiments compound noun phrase, object of preposition

using herself as a reluctant guinea-pig, participle phrase, modifying Kate Fox

Kate Fox - noun phrase; subject

discovers verb ;

what these unwritten behaviour codes tell us about Englishnes dependent clause; direct object of verb discover

further dissected
what - pronoun; introduces the clause, object of verb tell about
these unwritten behaviour codes - noun phrase, subject of verb tell about
us - indirect object of tell about
Englishness - direct object

Re: grammar error

AlpheccaStars — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:53:23 GMT

CalifJim
I don't even know the "traditional" term for the structure we're discussing here (with making ...) except that it involves a present participle.

CJ:

In the "classical" grammar I learned soon after the emergence of modern English , "making workers feel undervalued" would be analyzed as a participial phrase.

Most of the English grammar reference web sites I have used still keep to the "classical" grammar terminology. That is, a clause is defined as a group of words having both a subject and a (full, complete) verb. Groups of words which do not include both subject and verb are called phrases (not clauses).

If the phrase is headed by a present participle and acts grammatically in context as an adjective, it is called a participial phrase. If it acts grammatically as a noun, it is a gerund phrase.

Prepositional phrases are headed by a preposition, noun phrases by a noun, verb phrases by a verb, etc, etc,

I guess I'm just old-fashioned, but it all makes sense to me..

Re: passive voice

Huevos — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:22:52 GMT

Goodman
How would you classify this sentence then?

Goodman, your sentences are active voice. Their construction is: subject + linking verb (to be), + a noun phrase (predicate nominative). The passive voice, on the other hand, is formed thus: subject + verb to be + past participle of the lexical verb.