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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:

• Check out the page about Constituents and phrasal syntactic categories.

Result of Step 3:

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