Hello everyone! Welcome to the first week of English Grammar and Use. In this first post, I will be sharing (emphasizing 🙂 ) some of the writing conventions adopted in course work book and classroom material. In particular, I will be discussing the abbreviations for grammatical labels.
Grammatical abbreviations are quite useful, especially if you are asked to deconstruct a given sentence — or label the parts of speech, for instance, of a given sentence. Here are some of the conventions used by the Huddleston book:
- Adj Adjectives
- AdjP Adjective Phrase
- AdvP Adverb Phrase
- C. Comp Complement
- DP Determinative Phrase
- N Noun
- Nom Nominal
- NP Noun Phrase
- O Object
- Od Direct Object
- Oi Indirect Object
- P Predicator
- PC Predicative Complement
- PP Preposition Phrase
- Pred Comp . Predicative Complement
- Prep . Preposition
- S Subj . Subject
- V Verb
- VP Verb Phrase
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