SYNTAX: EXERCISE 1

Directions:

Here is a sentence with checkboxes over each word.  Decide where you would make your first cut if you were diagramming the syntactical structure of this sentence.  That is, decide what the Immediate Constituents (ICs) of the sentence are.

Mark the first IC as follows.  Start by positioning the mouse pointer over the checkbox that belongs to the first word in the sentence (Modern).   Check the box over Modern by clicking once with the mouse.  Then put checkmarks in  the boxes over all of the other words that belong to the same IC as Modern.  Leave the boxes over the other words unchecked.

If you check a box and then change your mind, you can remove the checkmark by clicking on the box again.

When you have finished checking the appropriate boxes, click on the "GO" button.  

 

Modern  English  is  full  of  bad  habits  which  spread  by  imitation.

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