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Old 11-Mar-2008, 21:12
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Default Re: Can you produce two tree diagrams from one sentence? If so how does that work

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Originally Posted by Mohammed Abu Risha View Post
Yes your question is clear.

In fact some people would start with the adjective. As for me, I follow the pattern through which I divide the sentence into Subject, Verb, Object, etc. then I move down to the detials of every constituent.

I did do one where is starts with an adj. However in another sentence, I am assuming a verb would start off the sentence. The problem with that is that VPs seem to only occur on the right not left.

I have for the one I did not construct.
V N Aux Aux V( not too sure with this though)
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