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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for Traditional Grammar » Identify what causes ungrammaticality

Basic Units of Syntactic Analysis

Identify what causes the ungrammaticality

The following sentences are not grammatical. Rewrite them so that they become grammatical and give an (informal) reason for the ungrammaticality

  1. (:vips 8087:)
    (:vips 8088:)

  2. (:vips 8089:)
    (:vips 8090:)

  3. (:vips 8091:)
    (:vips 8092:)

  4. (:vips 8093:)
    (:vips 8094:)

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