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A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. wiped. his hands. A small gnome in the garden. in the garden. the garden. A ‘Chinese Box’ representation of grammatical structure: clauses and groups. clause. A small gnome in the garden. wiped. his hands. in the garden. wiped. A. small.
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A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. wiped his hands A small gnome in the garden in the garden the garden A ‘Chinese Box’ representation of grammatical structure: clauses and groups clause
A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands in the garden wiped A small gnome his hands in the garden wipe -ed he hand -s Tree diagram: constituency structure A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands.
‘Tree diagram’ representation of grammatical structure A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause group group A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands group group in the garden wiped A small gnome his hands word word word word word in the garden wipe -ed he hand -s word group morphemes
The Rank Scale Clauses Groups & Phrases Words Morphemes
Names of parts: Rank Units A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause group group A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands group group in the garden wiped A small gnome his hands word word word word word in the garden wipe -ed he hand -s word morphemes group
A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands nominal group verbal group nominal group in the garden prepositional phrase the garden in preposition nominal group ‘Tree diagram’ representation of grammatical structure: down to groups
A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands. clause A small gnome in the garden wiped his hands nominal group verbal group nominal group in the garden prepositional phrase the garden in preposition nominal group Rank Units: down to groups
The Rank Scale • clauses • groups and phrases • nominal groups • verbal groups • adjectival groups • adverbial groups • prepositional phrases • words • morphemes are made up of
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function FORM Functional structure: clauses consist of prepositional phrases adverbial groups Circumstances Participants nominal groups Process verbal group
A map of linguistic structure Thomas T. Tatimus has been tying his tubs tentatively to two tall trees Useful as a way of decomposing a sentence into parts that can be quickly related to functional elements Ranked Constituents (minimal bracketting)