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1. Tools for Analysis – Word Categories – Tree Diagrams – Phrases and Phrase Structure – Form and Function 2. More on categories – Adverbs and Adverb Phrases – Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases – Adjectives and Adjective Phrases 3. The Verb Phrase – Transitive verb – Intransitive verb – Ditransitive verb – Intensive verb – Complex-transitive verb – Prepositional verb – Imperative 4. The Verb Group – Tense – Modal Auxiliaries – Primary Auxiliaries 5. The Noun Phrase – Pronouns – Pre- and Post-modification – Pre-modification – Post-modification 6. Subordination and Coordination – Subordination – Coordination – Summary of all rules – Phrases – Verb classes – Auxiliary verbs
– Thomas, Linda, Beginning Syntax. 2nd Edition. Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003 – Laurel J. Brinton. The Structure of Modern English. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2000.
