Syntactic Theory


Step 3

Segmentation II:

Identify Constituents

In our example sentence:

  • my history teacher
    • substitution: Pat will write to him tomorrow
  • to my history teacher
    • movement: To my history teacher Pat will write tomorrow.
  • write to my history teacher
    • substitution with do so: ''John will write to my history teacher next week and Pat will do so tomorrow.
  • write to my history teacher tomorrow
    • substitution with do so: ''John will write to my history teacher tomorrow and Pat will do so as well.
  • will write to my history teacher tomorrow
    • substitution with do so: ''John will write to my history teacher tomorrow and Pat does so as well.

In general:

Result of Step 3:

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