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Analyzing Sentences Using A Tree Diagram

Analyzing Sentences Using a Tree Diagram Analyzing Sentences Using a Tree Diagram Analyzing Sentences Using a Tree Diagram

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Analyzing

Sentences Using
Tree Diagram
Tia Rahmatika

Syntax Tree Generator


Phrase Structure Rules

S NP VP

NP (Det) (AdjP) N (PP)

PP P (NP)

VP V (NP) (PP) (AdvP)

AdvP (AdvP) Adv

AdjP (AdvP) Adj (PP)


Tree Diagram Abbreviations
Structural Designation Abbreviation Structural Designation Abbreviation

Sentence S Noun Phrase NP

Noun N Verb Phrase VP

Verb V Prepositional Phrase PP

Adverb Adv Adverb Phrase AdvP

Adjective Adj Adjective Phrase AdjP

Preposition P Independent Clause IC

Determiner Det Dependent Clause DC

Auxiliary Verb Aux Coordinate Conjunction CC

Main Verb MV Subordinate Conjunction SC


List of Common Prepositions
● Behind ● From ● Past
● About
● Below ● In ● Since
● Above
● Beneath ● Inside ● Through
● Across
● Beside ● Into ● Than
● After
● Between ● Like ● To
● Against
● Beyond ● Near ● Toward
● Along
● By ● Next ● Under
● Among
● Close to ● Of ● Until
● Apart
● Despite ● Off ● Up
● Around
● Down ● On ● Upon
● As
● During ● Out ● With
● At
● Except ● Outside ● Within
● Before
● For ● Over ● Without
Auxiliary Verbs

Modal
Be
● Can
Do ● Am Have ● Could
● Are ● Will
● Do ● Is ● Have ● Would
● Does ● Was ● Has ● Shall
● Did ● Were ● Had ● Should
● Be ● Having ● May
● Been ● Might
● Being ● Must
Types of Determiners
01. 02. 03.
Article Ordinals Numbers
Forest, Second, Third, One, Two, Twenty,
A , An, The
Last, Next Hindred

04. 05. 06.


Demonstratives Possessives Quantifiers
My, Your, His, Her, Its, Some, Any, Every, More,
This, That, These, Those
Our, Their Much, Few, Little
Sentence
Structures
Keys

● Independent Clause: Expresses a complete thought and can stand alone.

● Dependent Clause: Expresses incomplete thought and cannot be a sentence by


itself.

● Coordinating Conjunction: Joins words, phrases, and independent clauses.


E.g. FANBOYS

● Subordinating Conjunction: Comes before the dependent clause.


E.g. After, Although, As, Because, Before, Even If, Even though, If, In order that,
Once, Since, So that, Than, That, Though, Unless, Until, When, Whenever, Where,
Which, While, Who, Whoever, Why.
Four Sentence Structures
Simple Complex
1 Independent Clause and 1
1 Independent Clause or More Dependent Clauses

Rico kicked the ball. Lutfi cried because the ball hit him.
Subordinating Conjunction

Compound Compound-Complex
2 or More 2 or More Independent Clause
Independent Clause and 1 or More Dependent Clauses

Rico kicked the ball, and it hit Lutfi.


Lutfi cried because the ball hit him,
Coordinating Conjunction and Rico apologized immediately.
FANBOYS
Tree Diagram
Simple Sentence

Rico kicked the ball.


Compound Sentence

Rico kicked the ball, and it hit Lutfi.


Complex Sentence

Lutfi cried because the ball hit him.


Compound - Complex
Sentence

Lutfi cried because the ball hit him, and Rico apologized immediately.
Structural
Ambiguity
What is ambiguity?

A word, phrase, or sentence


is ambiguous if it has more
than one meaning. In other
words, ambiguity has more
than one interpretation.

E.g. The boy saw the man with the telescope.


Structural Ambiguity (1)

I saw the man with the telescope

Meaning: Using the telescope, the boy saw the man.


Structural Ambiguity (2)

I saw the man with the telescope

Meaning: The boy saw the man. The man had a telescope.
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