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Syntactic Structures: Media
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phrase structure of VP, or verb phrase
Figure 1: The constituent structure, or phrase structure, assigned by the rule VP...
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phrase structure of the sentence “The man will hit the ball”
Figure 2: Structural description of the sentence “The man will hit the ball,” assigned...
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derived phrase marker for a passive sentence
Figure 4: A possible derived phrase marker for a passive sentence (see text).
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