LIN204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sentence Clause Structure, Preposition And Postposition, Dependent Clause
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Main goal: idenify and diagram the most important consituents of a sentence. 7. 1 the main consituents of the sentence. English arranges most of its sentences in a very predictable way: s-v-o (s= subject- topic , predicate (what we are saying are verb and object) Ex. 1 our house has jumped over the fence: topic= horse, predicate= tells us about it i. e. it jumped over the fence. Ex. 2 swimming can improve your overall health: subject= swimming, predicate= can improve overall health , tells us about subject. Sentences are not formed by combining individual words, rather individual combine to make phrases and then these phrase combine to make large consituents, and then these combine to form a sentence. First we ind noun phrases: our hourse and the fence and these are formed by combining a determiner and a noun. Determiner and noun combinaions form a noun phrase. What about over , it forms a preposiional phrase.
