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SYNTAX

Is the way words and clauses are arranged to form sentences.

Structures of sentences:

SIMPLE: one independent clause; The car is green.

COMPOUND: two or more independent clauses ( joined by a comma with a coordinating conjunction; and,but, for...etc.) The car is green but, the tires are red.

COMPLEX SENTENCE: one independent clause and one or more dependent (subordinate) clauses; The car is green, i would like to buy it unless, you want to buy it too.

Considerations for analyzing syntax:

*Simple and Direct

* Complex and Convoluted

*Repetition or Parallel structure.

*Rhetorical questions. (pronouns)

SENTENCES CLASSIFICATIONS

* Declarative

* Imperative

*Interrogative

*Exclamatory

We create emphasis by:

*Position

*Isolation

*Repetition

*Proportion

Syntactic Category

*Lexical: N.adj,adv.

*Non lexical: articles,prepositions etc.

*Identification

*Meaning

*Inflection

*Distribuition

PHRASE STRUCTURE:

NP(noun phrase)

NP-------N ------BOY

NP-------ART+N-----THE BOY

NP-------ART+ADJ.+N-----THE SMART BOY

NP-------ART+ADJ(2)+N---------THE BIG SMART BOY

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