Syntax!!



Analyze one of the following sentences in the Comment Section below.


1.                  He saw the rope under the boxes.
2.                  Careful owners wash their car
3.                  Emma wore a mini-skirt.
4.                  His younger brother broke the vase on purpose.
5.                  Usain Bolt broke the 100m record.
6.                  The little bear saw the fine fat trout in the brook.
7.                  Nothing caught my interest.
8.                  He crawled out of the gorse-bush.
9.                  He took Masako to the school by the park.
10.               The student enjoyed his English syntax class last semester.
11.               Winnie-the-Pooh sat at the foot of a tree.
12.               The dog saw a man in the park.
13.               I was reading the newspaper.
14.               The policeman met several young students in the park last night.
15.               Peter has left the building.
16.               A heavy snowfall has blocked the road.
17.                 They have eaten all the honey.
18.               John will study syntax tomorrow.
19.               The cat chased the long string.
20.               The little boy hit the child with a toy.
21.               John refused the offer proudly.
22.               John tagged the monkey in the forest.
23.               His girlfriend bought this computer.
24.               That silly fool broke the teapot.
25.               The bus stopped suddenly.
26.               Shakespeare wrote his plays a long time ago.
27.               They went to the theater in London.
28.               A smith hammered the metal.
29.               The student heard a strange sound.
30.               John bought a lot of books for his sons.



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