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1a) We painted the red door.
1b) We painted the door red.
1a) We painted the red door. "We" is NP consists of the head noun "we" which is pronoun functioning as subject. Painted is VP consisted of the head verb "painted" and it is past simple tense. "The red door” consists of NP and adj P, "the" is determiner, “red" is adj p consists of the head adjective "red" ,"door" is the head noun. “The red door" functioning as direct object.
1b) we painted the door red. “we" is NP consists of the head noun "we" functioning as subject. "Painted" is VP consists of the head verb "painted" and it is in the past simple tense. “The door" is NP p consists of determiner "the" and the head noun “door" "the door" functioning as direct object. "Red" is adj p consists of head adjective "red" and functioning as postmodifeir.
In sentence 1a) we are talking about the door, which should be known to the reader, that its colour is red ,and we say that we painted it, but it is not known what colour we used to paint it.
In sentence 1b) we are talking about the door, which should be known to the reader too, this door is painted previously in the red colour, but it is not known what is its new colour.
2a) she does not like change.
2b) she does not like the changes.
Both sentences have the same syntactic analyse (s, v, do) and both of them are negated sentences, the differences lie in the objects "change” in the first sentence is undefined while "the object "change" in the second sentence is defined with the definite article "the”, the object in sentence 2a is singular while the object in the sentence 2b is plural marks with "s".
The first sentence 2a) means that she doesn't like the coin (small money), while in the second sentence we are talking about "the changes" that should be known to the reader which mean the actions of changing something making it different.
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1b) We painted the door red.
1a) We painted the red door. "We" is NP consists of the head noun "we" which is pronoun functioning as subject. Painted is VP consisted of the head verb "painted" and it is past simple tense. "The red door” consists of NP and adj P, "the" is determiner, “red" is adj p consists of the head adjective "red" ,"door" is the head noun. “The red door" functioning as direct object.
1b) we painted the door red. “we" is NP consists of the head noun "we" functioning as subject. "Painted" is VP consists of the head verb "painted" and it is in the past simple tense. “The door" is NP p consists of determiner "the" and the head noun “door" "the door" functioning as direct object. "Red" is adj p consists of head adjective "red" and functioning as postmodifeir.
In sentence 1a) we are talking about the door, which should be known to the reader, that its colour is red ,and we say that we painted it, but it is not known what colour we used to paint it.
In sentence 1b) we are talking about the door, which should be known to the reader too, this door is painted previously in the red colour, but it is not known what is its new colour.
2a) she does not like change.
2b) she does not like the changes.
Both sentences have the same syntactic analyse (s, v, do) and both of them are negated sentences, the differences lie in the objects "change” in the first sentence is undefined while "the object "change" in the second sentence is defined with the definite article "the”, the object in sentence 2a is singular while the object in the sentence 2b is plural marks with "s".
The first sentence 2a) means that she doesn't like the coin (small money), while in the second sentence we are talking about "the changes" that should be known to the reader which mean the actions of changing something making it different.
is there any comment on the answers?
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In sentence 1b) we are talking about the door, which should be known to the reader too, this door is painted previously in the red colour, but it is not known what is its new colour. This is not the correct interpretation of the sentence. We do not know what colour the door was previously.
- In sentence 1b) we are talking about the door, which should be known to the reader too, this door is painted previously in the red colour, but it is not known what is its new colour.
- This is not the correct interpretation of the sentence.
- We do not know what colour the door was previously.
- We know it is now red.
- The first sentence 2a) means that she doesn't like the coin (small money), while in the second sentence we are talking about "the changes" that should be known to the reader which mean the actions of changing something making it different.
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In sentence 1b) we are talking about the door, which should be known to the reader too, this door is painted previously in the red colour, but it is not known what is its new colour.
This is not the correct interpretation of the sentence. We do not know what colour the door was previously. We know it is now red.
The first sentence 2a) means that she doesn't like the coin (small money)
This is not the correct interpretation of the sentence. We do not know what colour the door was previously. We know it is now red.
The first sentence 2a) means that she doesn't like the coin (small money)
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