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Jander52 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Developing Tree Diagrams
1. the corrupt official offered him money for the documents
so in sentence #1 the iO is "him" and the dO is "money" and "documents" is the object complement?
is that why the structure is layed out that way, because of the function of the NP's and PP's? ie idO,iO,sC,pC, adjucnt adverbial, conjunct adverbial, disjunct adverbial? does that dictate the structure by itself, does a sentence tree diagram look the same if all of the functions are in the same order?
2. the strong winds toppled the tree in the front yard of our house
and in 2. the dO is "the tree" what is "front yard" and "our house"?
so in sentence #1 the iO is "him" and the dO is "money" and "documents" is the object complement?
is that why the structure is layed out that way, because of the function of the NP's and PP's? ie idO,iO,sC,pC, adjucnt adverbial, conjunct adverbial, disjunct adverbial? does that dictate the structure by itself, does a sentence tree diagram look the same if all of the functions are in the same order?
2. the strong winds toppled the tree in the front yard of our house
and in 2. the dO is "the tree" what is "front yard" and "our house"?
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1-- 'The documents' is a noun phrase and the object of the preposition 'for'. The PP (prepositional phrase), 'for the documents' is an adverb modifying the rest of the predicate. 2-- 'The front yard' and 'our house' are both noun phrases as objects of prepositions.
- 1-- 'The documents' is a noun phrase and the object of the preposition 'for'.
- The PP (prepositional phrase), 'for the documents' is an adverb modifying the rest of the predicate.
- 2-- 'The front yard' and 'our house' are both noun phrases as objects of prepositions.
- 'Of our house' is an adjective modifying 'front yard' and 'In the front yard of our house' is an adjective modifying 'tree'.
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1-- 'The documents' is a noun phrase and the object of the preposition 'for'. The PP (prepositional phrase), 'for the documents' is an adverb modifying the rest of the predicate.
2-- 'The front yard' and 'our house' are both noun phrases as objects of prepositions. 'Of our house' is an adjective modifying 'front yard' and 'In the front yard of our house' is an adjective modifying 'tree
2-- 'The front yard' and 'our house' are both noun phrases as objects of prepositions. 'Of our house' is an adjective modifying 'front yard' and 'In the front yard of our house' is an adjective modifying 'tree
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