tailieunhanh - The grammar book teacher course part 67

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 67', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 4Ü2 The Grammar Book Form Syntactic Options for Simple and Complex Conjunction Combining Like Constituents with Coordinating Conjunctions Perhaps the easiest way to begin a discussion of conjunction is by mentioning the most common signal used to conjoin the coordinating conjunction and which seems to mean much the same as the plus sign in arithmetic. Consider some of the constituents that and may conjoin bread and butter the bread and the butter big and strong very big and extremely strong quickly run and hide run fast and hide quickly over the field and into the trees neatly and effectively very neatly and rather effectively She got in the pool and she began to swim. noun noun NP NP adjective adjective AP AP verb verb VP VP PrepP PrepP adverb adverb AdvP AdvP S S You should have no difficulty constructing sentences in which such sequences naturally occur for example The children ran and hid. The problem was solved neatly and effectively. The police saw nothing unusual and they left the scene. On the other hand we find difficulty conjoining two constituents that are not of the same type bread and strong very big and hide The police saw nothing unusual and effectively. Consistent with the adage You can t add apples and oranges simple conjunction standardly involves the coordination of constituents of the same type marked by at least one coordinating conjunction where the meanings of the conjuncts . the individual constituents conjoined are distinct from each Coordinate structures might be generated in a number of possible ways but we will assume that simple conjunctions are generated directly in the base in their normal position between constituents of identical categories. Our phrase structure rules will be revised accordingly to read X - X Conj X Conj X where X represents any constituent of a given category. Thus simple conjoined constituents in a tree would look like this Chapter 24 Coordinating Conjunction 463 Such an analysis assumes that conjoined