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The document discusses syntax trees for sentences containing auxiliary verbs like "will" and possessive phrases like "the king's daughter". It asks the reader to draw syntax trees for the sentences "Suze will earn a fair wage", "Will Suze earn a fair wage?", and "The king's daughter will get married soon" as examples of these grammatical structures. It also provides two interpretations of the phrase "current information technology" and asks the reader to draw syntax trees for each.
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Week 7 morphology (part 1)zouhirgabsi
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This document discusses how knowing a word involves understanding its sound, meaning, morphological formation, and syntactic category and use. It provides examples of how verbs have related forms like talk/talks and can be preceded by auxiliary verbs. Nouns have singular and plural forms and can be preceded by articles. Identifying parts of speech involves looking at related forms and common syntactic patterns, like verbs occurring with auxiliaries and nouns taking articles. The document aims to describe the core components of lexical and morphological knowledge involved in fully knowing a word.Ad
Syntax part 6
- 1. Syntax-part 5Auxiliary verbs (also called helping verbs)S-> NP AUX VP S NP AUX VP
- 2. Syntax-Part 5Draw the trees fro the following:Suze will earn a fair wageWill Suze earn a fair wage?
- 3. Syntax-part 5Possessive phraseDraw the tree diagram for:The kings daughter will get married soon
- 4. QuizCurrent information technology has two interpretations.The information technology that is currentThe technology of current informationDraw two trees.