Timeline for Why is the passive "are described" not grammatically correct in this sentence?
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| May 29, 2023 at 19:05 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore. It's just something that you can place at the head of the entire sentence if you want a single node there. I find it especially useful if there is a coordinated structure on top. (E.g.: "Alice walks and talks." "Alice walks, and Bob talks." Rather than saying that the sentence has multiple nodes at the top, we can say that they are children of the sentence's "root".) If a lot of people find it confusing, then I can edit the answer. | |
| May 29, 2023 at 18:39 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | I’ve heard of a root clause (i.e. main clause) and the root of a word (i.e. it’s base), but what is the root of a sentence or a ‘sentence’s root’? | |
| May 29, 2023 at 17:40 | comment | added | MarcInManhattan | @Araucaria-Nothereanymore. Their parent would be the sentence's "root" if that were allowed. (I put that in quotation marks because there's no single, universal way of analyzing the structure, as you know of course. That is how I like to consider it.) But yes, I certainly agree that we could also say that the subject shouldn't have two uncoordinated parents. | |
| May 29, 2023 at 12:49 | comment | added | Araucaria - Not here any more. | What is the parent of the two tensed VPs in OP's ungrammatical example? And why is it a parent? It seems to me that the real problem, if it had to be explained in such terms is that an item can only have 1 parent, not 2. | |
| May 29, 2023 at 9:31 | history | answered | MarcInManhattan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |