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SINTAX is the part of grammar that represents a speaker’s knowledge of…

- - - - Stand alone test, replacement, move as a unit, ellipsis, deletion VP, coordination, and conjuction.
- - - - Lexical categories: Noun, Verb, Preposition, Adjective, Adverb.
        
        Functional categories: auxiliaries, determiners.
- - - - Recursive adjectives and possessives. Possessor NPs such as in the girl’s shoes function as a determiner with the ‘s representing possession (poss).
- - - - A node immediately dominates the categories directly below it.
        
        Sisters are categories that are immediately dominated by the same node.
        
        Phrase structure rules specify the well-formed structures of a sentence.
        
        Phrase structure rules specify the well-formed structures of a sentence.
- - - - S-selection verbs also select subjects and complements based on semantic properties.
        
        WHAT HEADS THE SENTENCE
        
        The category of Auxiliary, Modals, heads a sentence because a sentence is about a situation of state of affairs that happens at some point in time.