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DEFINITION - the way in which words are put together to form sentences.

- part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences and their structures.

DEFINITION - the way in which words are put together to form sentences. - part of grammar that represents a speakers knowledge of sentences and their structures.

PHRASE STRUCTURE RULES/TREE DIAGRAM - the way - partences and their structures.

NOUN PHRASE (NP) - a phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, optionally accompanied by a set of modifiers (also known as subject). - eg: the phrase the cat consists of word the and the noun dog and that the whole phrase is a noun phrase. VERB PHRASE (VP) - a syntactic structure composed of the predicative elements of a sentence - Function: to provide information about the subject of the sentence (also known as predicate). - eg:

SYNTAX

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