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2. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words , phrases , clauses , sentences , and whole texts. Overview

3. Phrase structure rules - Wikipedia

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   A grammar that uses phrase structure rules is a type of phrase structure grammar. Phrase structure rules as they are commonly employed operate according to the constituency relation, and a grammar that employs phrase structure rules is therefore a constituency grammar; as such, it stands in contrast to dependency grammars, which are based on ...

4. Grammar - Wikipedia

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   A description, study, or analysis of such rules may also be known as a grammar, or as a grammar book. A reference work describing the grammar of a language is called a reference grammar or simply a grammar. A fully revealed grammar, which describes the grammatical constructions of a particular speech type in great detail is called descriptive ...

5. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   In grammar, sentence and clause structure, commonly known as sentence composition, is the classification of sentences based on the number and kind of clauses in their syntactic structure. Such division is an element of traditional grammar .

6. Constituent (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Tests for constituents are diagnostics used to identify sentence structure. There are numerous tests for constituents that are commonly used to identify the constituents of English sentences. 15 of the most commonly used tests are listed next: 1) coordination (conjunction), 2) pro-form substitution (replacement), 3) topicalization (fronting), 4) do-so-substitution, 5) one-substitution, 6 ...

7. Subject–auxiliary inversion - Wikipedia

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   Syntactic theories based on phrase structure typically analyze subject–aux inversion using syntactic movement. In such theories, a sentence with subject–aux inversion has an underlying structure where the auxiliary is embedded deeper in the structure. When the movement rule applies, it moves the auxiliary to the beginning of the sentence. [5]

8. X-bar theory - Wikipedia

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   A principle is a shared, invariable rule of grammar across languages, whereas a parameter is a typologically variable aspect of the grammars. [21] One can either set their parameter with the values of "+" or "-": In the case of the head parameter, one configures the parameter of [±head first], depending on what language they primarily speak ...

9. Phrase structure grammar - Wikipedia

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   The term phrase structure grammar was originally introduced by Noam Chomsky as the term for grammar studied previously by Emil Post and Axel Thue (Post canonical systems). Some authors, however, reserve the term for more restricted grammars in the Chomsky hierarchy : context-sensitive grammars or context-free grammars .