LIN204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Preterite, Gamblers Anonymous, Dependent Clause
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Kinds of phrases: noun phrases, verb phrases, adjective phrases, and adverb phrases. Sentence level the largest segments into which we divide the material are subject and predicate. Subject: the thing most prominently involved (the topic or subject of the sentence) Predicate: event that involved it or what is said about it (the comment about the topic) e. g. , the glaggety woodgies | climmed brudgingly to the weegster. We assume that once the verb appears, we have head the entire subject background. Language structure provides a pattern that helps the speaker present information in predictable patterns and the listener to process that information efficiently. Edward names a topic (the who of the sentence, presumably known by both speaker and hearer) Grows tomatoes as large as grapefruit gives new information about edward, telling something that he does. Tomatoes as large as grapefruit belongs with grows, so you can"t make the main division of the sentence after grows, either.
