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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for Traditional Grammar » Identifying words

Basic Units of Syntactic Analysis

Identifying Words

Retype the following sentences in such a way that each syntactic word occupies exactly one slot. (There may be more slots indicated than there are words in the sentence.)

(:vips 8057:)

(:vips 8792:)

For comments see the glossary page on syntactic words.

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