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Badross Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Identify all the noun phrases in the following sentence and analyze them into their immediate constituents( in terms of form, function and grammatical relation ):
-This very famous Cambridge University teacher of Cognitive Psychology has recently published an extremely important article that deals with the acquisition of linguistic knowledge by normal children.
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Is this your English grammar exercise for a class? The teachers here would prefer that you attempt to answer the exercise first, and then we will help you to understand the lesson. If you don't try, you won't learn.
- Is this your English grammar exercise for a class?
- The teachers here would prefer that you attempt to answer the exercise first, and then we will help you to understand the lesson.
- If you don't try, you won't learn.
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Is this your English grammar exercise for a class?
The teachers here would prefer that you attempt to answer the exercise first, and then we will help you to understand the lesson.
If you don't try, you won't learn.
The teachers here would prefer that you attempt to answer the exercise first, and then we will help you to understand the lesson.
If you don't try, you won't learn.
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Let me borrow a sentence from another post and show you where the noun phrases are by putting them in brackets. Then you can try to do the same for your example sentence. Note that you can have one noun phrase inside another.
[Peters], [ [a former lawyer] who long ago gave up [her bar card] ] , has devised [ [a unique legal vehicle] to drive [Honda] into [court] ] — [ [a small claims
[Peters], [ [a former lawyer] who long ago gave up [her bar card] ] , has devised [ [a unique legal vehicle] to drive [Honda] into [court] ] — [ [a small claims
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