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{Which of the following sentences are | {Which of the following sentences are grammatically correct? | ||
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- Harry is wizard. | - Harry is wizard. | ||
|| The determiner in this sentence is missing. The correct sentence would be: Harry is ''a'' wizard. | || The determiner in this sentence is missing. The correct sentence would be: Harry is ''a'' wizard. | ||
+ Harry lives at Hogwarts. | |||
+ Quidditch is played in the wizard world. | + Quidditch is played in the wizard world. | ||
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- The Chamber of Secrets opened Dumbledore. | - The Chamber of Secrets opened Dumbledore. | ||
|| Wrong word order. An object cannot open a subject. It is the other way around. | || Wrong word order. An object cannot open a subject. It is the other way around. | ||
- Harry dreams at Voldemort. | |||
|| The preposition is wrong. The correct sentence would be: Harry dreams about Voldemort. | |||
+ Hermione and Ron are Harry's friends. | |||
+ Ron loves Hermione. | |||
- Hufflepuff are Griffindor and houses Hogwarts. | |||
|| Wrong word order and a preposition is missing. The correct sentence would be: Hufflepuff and Griffindor are houses at Hogwarts. | |||
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=== Further Links === | === Further Links === | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_category syntacical categories] | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_category syntacical categories] | ||
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Syntatic Tree Structure
Why do we need syntactic trees?
Constructing syntacic trees can be rather tricky at the beginning of your linguistic studies. Nonetheless, it is important to understand the structure and apply this knowledge to various sentences by yourself. In order to do so, we have created an introductory video. Enjoy!
Video
Excercises
Task 1