Answer to Question #235310 in English for KAT

Question

a) what is Generative Grammar? How does it help us remove the flaws of phrase
structure grammar? Discuss
b) Draw a tree diagram for the following sentence giving P-Markers:
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Answer 1

a)

A precise collection of rules whose output is all (and only) the sentences of a language—that is, the language that it generates—is known as generative grammar. Generative grammars provide a structural description, or syntactic analysis, for each grammatical sentence, in addition to distinguishing grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sequences of words in the same language. A generative grammar's structural descriptions are analogous to, but more clearly stated than, the analyses that result from the traditional method of parsing sentences in terms of elements of speech.

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