Analysing Sentences

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A new edition of this highly successful text - long regarded as a standard introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure.

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Preface to the third edition	p. ix
Preface to the second edition	p. xi
Preface to the first edition	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
The organisation of the chapters	p. 4
A note on how to read this book	p. 4
Sentence structure: constituents	p. 6
Structure	p. 6
Establishing constituents	p. 10
'Phrase' and 'constituent'	p. 15
Exercises	p. 19
Discussion of exercises	p. 20
Further exercises	p. 23
Sentence structure: functions	p. 24
Subject and predicate	p. 24
Noun Phrase and Verb Phrase	p. 29
Dependency and function	p. 31
Head	p. 32
The modifier
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