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518018-TASK 3 - Diana Carolina Ortiz
518018-TASK 3 - Diana Carolina Ortiz
Tutor
Mangely Londoño
Step 2: Analysis
- Identify all the parts of speech used in the following sentence, consider page 82
in Yule, G. (2010):
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin
Luther King.
I First person pronouns
Have: Verb
A: Article
Dream: Noun/verb
That: Demonstrative
My: Possessive Pronoun
Four: Number/Noun
Little: Adjectiv
Children: Noun
Will: Auxiliar for future
One: Noun
Day: Noun
Live: Verb
In: Preposition
A: Article
Nation: Noun
Where: Relative clause
They: Subject Pronoun
Will Auxiliar for future
Not: Negation
Be: Verb
Judged: Verb/adjective
By: Preposition
The: Article
Color: Adject
Of: Preposition
Their: Possessive pronoun
Skin: Noun
But: Conjuction/preposition
By: Preposition
The: Article
Content: Noun
Of: Preposition
Their: Possessive Pronoun
Character: Noun
linked to sex, while the natural gender is based on sex (masculine and feminine).
following sentences:
This sentence is correct because the sentence has a subject, a verb and its complement,
when we write "casa blanca", the subject refers to only one object: house, but in the
position of these two words the adjective goes first (white) and then the noun (house), it
This sentence in English does not comply with the grammatical rules since the word white
is an adjective and therefore must be before the noun house, in this case the subject is
expressing this action in the present tense and refers only to a specific object.
This sentence is correct because it is written in another tense "past", besides the subject
painted the house and it also highlights the color that it was white for this reason the
Why is (3) grammatical while (2) is not, since they both end in the same sequence
of casa blanca?
As mentioned before, the second sentence is not grammatical since in that case the
adjective - color should be first and then the noun - house to fulfill the rules, in the third
sentence the subject performs the action in another past tense and expresses the action he
performed to the house and also determines the color for this reason the complement in the
sentence changes.
Bibliographic references
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