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Step 4

Classification II:

Determine Syntactic Categories for the Constituents

In our example sentence:

• my history teacher/NP
• to my history teacher/PP
• write to my history teacher/VP
• write to my history teacher tomorrow/VP
• will write to my history teacher tomorrow/VP

In general:

• Check out the page about Constituents and phrasal syntactic categories
• and the special pages for the individual phrasal syntactic categories: NP, VP, AP, PP, clausal categories, conjoined phrases.

Result of Step 4:

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