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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for HPSG » Tree Structure ''was chased''

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The Passive

Tree Structure was chased

This exercise refers to the section The Verb Be in Passive Sentences.

Draw the complete tree structure for the VP was chased as given in the sentence

The cat was chased.



Solution

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