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Inchoateknowledge Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
head
1. Oddly enough, he went home early.
2. Despite there not being many people at the party, we insisted on staying.
I try to find all the heads in the two sentences.
(Heads will roll.)
1. Let me think, it is phrases that have heads, is it not?
How many phrases are there in the first sentence?
2?
Or productum 6? (there are 6 words in the sentence)
'Oddly enough' is phrase. The head is 'odd', not oddly, because the head is to be a morpheme.
'he went home early' is a phrase.What is the head here? Went. Why? Because went, the morpheme of which is went (the same), determines the syntactic function of the phrase.
'enough, he went' Is it a phrase? I think so. what about this one? I do not think it has syntactical function. So it is futile to speak about the head of it.
Comments?
2. Despite there not being many people at the party, we insisted on staying.
Despite is a conjunctive adverbial, is it? It links two main clauses? Yes, I think.
First clause: 'Despite there not being many people at the party' What is the head?
be? Yes, because being determines the syntactic function of the phrase: noun, and it is a gerund phrase.
The head is 'be' because the lexeme 'being' has the morpheme 'be'. 'Was' is a morpheme too, is it not?
Does it mean 'was' is a head too in the phrase? No, I do not think so, because the tense should be the same.
Comments?
2. Despite there not being many people at the party, we insisted on staying.
I try to find all the heads in the two sentences.
(Heads will roll.)
1. Let me think, it is phrases that have heads, is it not?
How many phrases are there in the first sentence?
2?
Or productum 6? (there are 6 words in the sentence)
'Oddly enough' is phrase. The head is 'odd', not oddly, because the head is to be a morpheme.
'he went home early' is a phrase.What is the head here? Went. Why? Because went, the morpheme of which is went (the same), determines the syntactic function of the phrase.
'enough, he went' Is it a phrase? I think so. what about this one? I do not think it has syntactical function. So it is futile to speak about the head of it.
Comments?
2. Despite there not being many people at the party, we insisted on staying.
Despite is a conjunctive adverbial, is it? It links two main clauses? Yes, I think.
First clause: 'Despite there not being many people at the party' What is the head?
be? Yes, because being determines the syntactic function of the phrase: noun, and it is a gerund phrase.
The head is 'be' because the lexeme 'being' has the morpheme 'be'. 'Was' is a morpheme too, is it not?
Does it mean 'was' is a head too in the phrase? No, I do not think so, because the tense should be the same.
Comments?
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I don't understand what you mean by 'heads'? Or productum for that matter (the Latin word for 'something produced)?
- I don't understand what you mean by 'heads'?
- Or productum for that matter (the Latin word for 'something produced)?
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I don't understand what you mean by 'heads'? Or productum for that matter (the Latin word for 'something produced)?
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In transformational grammar, there are noun phrases (NPs), adjective phrases (APs), verb phrases (VPs), adverb phrases (ADVPs), and prepositional phrases (PPs). In each, the main noun, adjective, verb, adverb, or preposition is called the head. The main noun of an NP is the head of the NP, and so on. In this system of analysis even a single word can be considered a phrase. Phrases are o
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Thank you Nona; Jim has already managed to figure it out.
Productum is a matematical operator, denoted by p
productum 6 means: p 6 = 1+2+3+...+6
Productum is a matematical operator, denoted by p
productum 6 means: p 6 = 1+2+3+...+6
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