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  2. Immediate constituent analysis - Wikipedia

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    A sentence, in turn, is formed as a sequence of symbols, beginning with a designated non-terminal symbol and culminating in a terminal string. Every terminal node is part of a constituent, as constituents form the interconnected structure leading from the root to the smallest, indivisible unit of the tree.

  3. Presentation - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides are effective tools to develop slides, both Google Slides and Microsoft PowerPoint allows groups to work together online to update each account as it is edited. Content such as text, images, links, and effects are added into each of the presentation programs to deliver useful, consolidated information to a ...

  4. Generative grammar - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, generative theories generally provide performance-based explanations for the oddness of center embedding sentences like one in (2). According to such explanations, the grammar of English could in principle generate such sentences, but doing so in practice is so taxing on working memory that the sentence ends up being unparsable ...

  5. Explanation - Wikipedia

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    The term explanation is sometimes used in the context of justification, e.g., the explanation as to why a belief is true. Justification may be understood as the explanation as to why a belief is a true one or an account of how one knows what one knows. It is important to be aware when an explanation is not a justification.

  6. Constituent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    This sentence suggests that the definite article the is a constituent in the test sentence. Regarding the test sentence, however, the omission test is very limited in its ability to identify constituents, since the strings that one wants to check do not appear optionally. Therefore, the test sentence is adapted to better illustrate the omission ...

  7. Models of scientific inquiry - Wikipedia

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    The deductive argument is called an explanation, its premisses are called the explanans (L: explaining) and the conclusion is called the explanandum (L: to be explained). Depending on a number of additional qualifications, an explanation may be ranked on a scale from potential to true. Not all explanations in science are of the D-N type, however.

  8. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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    When the movement rule applies, it moves the auxiliary to the beginning of the sentence. [5] An alternative analysis does not acknowledge the binary division of the clause into subject NP and predicate VP, but rather it places the finite verb as the root of the entire sentence and views the subject as switching to the other side of the finite verb.

  9. Sentence function - Wikipedia

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    The declarative sentence is the most common kind of sentence, and can be considered the default form: when a language forms a question or a command, it will be a modification of the declarative. A declarative states an idea (either objectively or subjectively on the part of the speaker; and may be either true or false) for the purpose of ...