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Grammar

Syntactic Categories

I am trying to break the words of a sentence down into syntactic categories, and was hoping I could get feedback to see if I am doing it correctly with one sentence in particular. I put the parts of speech I think they are within brackets after each word:

" These[Det] students[N] will[Aux] pass[V] pragmatics[N] and[Con] phonetics[N] quite[Deg] easily[AdV] "

I am not sure of 'Pass' being a Verb and 'Easily' being an Adverb... the word pass is not exactly an action but more of a result so I am confused as to it's part of speech. Could someone give me some feedback and let me know if I am correct in thinking pass easily is a verb and adverb respectively? Thank you!
  

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Hi, I am trying to break the words of a sentence down into syntactic categories, and was hoping I could get feedback to see if I am doing it correctly with one sentence in particular. I put the parts of speech I think they are within brackets after each word: " These[Det] students will[Aux] pass[V] pragmatics and[Con] phonetics quite[Deg] easily[AdV] " I am not sure of 'Pass' being a Verb and 'Easily' being an Adverb... the word pass is not exactly an action but more of a result so I am confused as to it's part of speech.

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  • Hi, I am trying to break the words of a sentence down into syntactic categories, and was hoping I could get feedback to see if I am doing it correctly with one sentence in particular.
  • I put the parts of speech I think they are within brackets after each word: " These[Det] students will[Aux] pass[V] pragmatics and[Con] phonetics quite[Deg] easily[AdV] " I am not sure of 'Pass' being a Verb and 'Easily' being an Adverb...
  • the word pass is not exactly an action but more of a result so I am confused as to it's part of speech.
  • Could someone give me some feedback and let me know if I am correct in thinking pass easily is a verb and adverb respectively?
  • Yes, 'pass' is indeed a verb here.
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Hi,

I am trying to break the words of a sentence down into syntactic categories, and was hoping I could get feedback to see if I am doing it correctly with one sentence in particular. I put the parts of speech I think they are within brackets after each word:

" These[Det] students
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