Showing posts with label sentence diagrams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sentence diagrams. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Parse Tree Puzzle

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Spotted this fun puzzle at the Speculative Grammarian Self-Defining Puzzle by Swivelhips Smith, D.Phil.Taxidermy Tech Scroll down for answer...
Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Syntax with Sherlock - Sentence Ambiguity Illustrated and Diagrammed

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*For simplicity's sake, because the phrase "using binoculars" functions like a prepositional phrase, I have taken the liberty ...
Monday, July 19, 2010

An Introduction to Sentence Types and Basic Sentence Trees

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Simple Sentence Every sentence must contain a noun phrase and a verb phrase (in some sentences the noun phrase may be null). Coordinate Sen...
Monday, May 3, 2010

Who Had the Fork? - Sentence Ambiguity Diagrammed

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The cat ate the mouse with a fork. IS IT... The cat used a fork to eat the mouse. (The cat had the fork) OR IS IT... The cat ate the mouse...
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Blossoms Crash on Garden Path Resulting in Conflicting Trees

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Garden path sentences are those that lead a reader down a path to an incorrect semantic and/or syntactic interpretation of the sentence dur...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Nose Ring Ambiguity Diagrammed

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What better way to have fun with an intentionally ambiguous cartoon than to diagram the ambiguous sentence in the cartoon! Gotta love the h...
Friday, December 18, 2009

Linguistics Cartoon Favorites - Diagramming Sentences

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Why no one diagrams sentences anymore.
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Friday, July 10, 2009

Linguistics Cartoon Favorites - Sentence Diagrams

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Diagramming Sentences: The Syntactic Tree

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The method of sentence diagramming(shown below) that most high school students still learn today is based on on the work of Alonzo Reed and ...
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