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syntactically speaking
In the sentence :
She was born a slave in 1849 and fled to the north, where she joined the Underground Railroad
she= subjective personal pronoun
was= helping verb
born= main verb
a = Adjective
slave= noun, common, countable, concrete, non-collective
in = preposition
1849 = noun
and = conjuction
fled action verb
to = preposition
the =definite article
North, = noun, commom, abstract???, non-countable, non-collective
where = Adverb of place
she = subjective personal pronoun
joined = action verb
the = definite article
Underground Railroad = Proper noun
HELP ME PLEASE is there any other mistake????
Last edited by Dariannie23; 21-Mar-2012 at 20:54.
Reason: speling
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Re: syntactically speaking
Sorry that I didn't reply sooner.
This all looks good to be, but it is not syntax. Your terms are the terms of morphology.
Still, it all looks good.
Frank
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Re: syntactically speaking
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Re: syntactically speaking
A few comments and observations which may be of help:
born= main verb
Actually a simple participle. I would avoid calling this (the "focus", if you will, in semantic terms) a 'main verb', which is a term traditionally reserved to label the finite verbal element of a clause (here the preceding auxiliary 'was').
a = Adjective
Articles are among a wide range of forms that were formerly (i.e. in previous centuries!) classified as adjectives. A more normal classification for 'a' and 'the' would be 'article', although articles are generally now subsumed under the more general syntactic heading of 'determiner'.
slave= noun, ... concrete
Yes, but be aware that 'abstract/concrete' is not a grammatical classification!
1849 = noun
Well, yes, but only in the sense that it is elliptical for 'the year 1849'.
where = Adverb of place
Yes, but to be more precise, relative adverb.
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