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Syntactic Analysis Test for Sentence Structure

Analyze provided sentences before checking proposed solutions, focusing on subject, predicate, tense, and modifiers. Test your understanding of syntactic structures.

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Syntactic Analysis Test for Sentence Structure

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  1. Syntactic analysis - test Provide your own analysis of the sentences on the next slide before consulting the proposed solutions

  2. Test sentences • Everybody slept • Everybody was sleeping • Everybody was fast asleep • Everybody slept for hours • Unfortunately, everybody was fast asleep when a burgler broke in through the window • When2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk, the burgler was silently filling his sack with the family silver • Seeing Tommy, he jumped, and, seeing the burglar, Tommy jumped the other way Click on a sentence to go to the proposed solution

  3. S Subject Predicate VP NP Modalisation Predication Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Pro Head V Everybody -ed sleep 1. Everybody slept

  4. S Subject Predicate NP VP Modalisation Predication Pro Aux [+Fin] [+Past] [+Prog] V´ Head V Everybody -ed be -ing sleep 2. Everybody was sleeping

  5. S Subject Predicate NP VP Modalisation Predication Pro Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Head CS V AP Specifier AdvP A´ Head A Everybody -ed be fast asleep 3. Everybody was fast asleep

  6. S Subject Predicate NP VP Adjunct Pro VP PP Modalisation Predication Head Complement P NP Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Head V Everybody -ed sleep for hours 4. Everybody slept for hours

  7. S Adjunct Subject Predicate Adjunct AdvP NP VP S´ Modalisation Predication S Pro Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ Comp Head CS Subject Predicate V AP NP VP Specifier Specifier Adjunct AdvP A´ D N´ VP PP Head Head A N Aux [+Fin] [+Past] V´ P NP Head D N Unfortunately everybody -ed be fast asleep V Particle when a burglar -ed break in through the window 5. Unfortunately, everybody was fast asleep when a burgler broke in through the window

  8. S 0 Adjunct Subject Predicate S´ NP VP the burgler Comp S 1 was silently filling his sack with the family silver When 2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk Click on the purple nodes to see proposed analysis

  9. When 2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk, the burglar was silently filling his sack with the family silver

  10. S´ Comp S 1 Adjunct NP VP S´ When Aux AP ProperN V´ S Comp 2 [+Fin] [+Past] Compl Specifier Adv V NP A´ Tommy -ed up because he needed a drink of milk wake A 2-year old When 2-year old Tommy woke up because he needed a drink of milk, the burglar was silently filling his sack with the family silver Click on the purple node to see proposed analysis

  11. S 2 Subject Predicate VP NP Modalisation He Aux V´ [+Fin] [+Past] Head DO NP V -ed Spec D N´ need Head Complement N PP Head a drink P NP of milk

  12. S 0 S S Coord 1 2 Seeing Tommy, he jumped seeing the burglar, and Tommy jumped the other way Click on the purple node to see proposed analysis

  13. S 1 Adjunct Subject Predicate S´ NP VP Pro V´ Aux [+Fin] V S Comp [+Past] 3 he -ed jump Subject Predicate NP VP Ø Ø Aux V´ [-Fin] Head DO V NP -ing see Tommy

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