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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for Traditional Grammar » Bracketting Constituents

Constituent Structure

Bracketing Constituents

Add the correct constituent brackets between the words.

Example:

[ John [ read [ the [ book [ about Paris] ] ] [ last night] ] ]

Note: make space after every bracket! ('[ [ ] ')

(:vips 8170:)

(:vips 8171:)

(:vips 8169:)

(:vips 8172:)

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