LIN204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pluperfect, Future Perfect, Underlying Representation
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English arranges most of its sentences in a very predictable way: S (subject - topic) -> v-o (predicate what we"re saying about the topic: our horse has jumped over the fence, swimming can improve your overall health, the woman who is running across the street is my mother. Inside the subject we have the determiner the the head noun woman and a relaive clause that is describing the woman who is running across the street. Sentences are not formed by combining individual words. Rather individual words combine to make phrases: our (det) horse (n) has jumped over the (det) fence (n) > and we know there a det + n forms a np (noun phrase) which is also the subject. > over sorts of follows the fence which serves as a prep. > and we know that a p+np forms a pp (preposiion phrase). > has (aux) jumped (v) -> aux + v forms a mvp (main verb phrase).
