AB ENGLISH 2B

English Syntax Report

Abad, Abegail
Amistoso, Samantha
Atole, Rikka
Logronio, Mary Faty
Millabas, Rizza
Sazon, Kirsten
Siano, Marjorie
Renolayan, Jessel
Other types of
Transformationormation

GROUP 6
AB ENGLISH LANGUAGE 2B
Transformation explain three other processes in addition to movement
rules:

Deletion
Insertion
Substitution

DELETION TRANSFORMATIONS
A sentence that undergoes transformation must have the same meaning the
sentence from which it was derived.
-Transformations never change meaning.
In the Imperative sentence:
You come here
(The pronoun may be deleted)

The derived sentence:

Come here
(has the same meaning is the basic sentence)
This transformation is called the IMPERATIVE TRANSFORMATION
Redundant elements in the deep structure of the basic sentence
may also be deleted .
 FOR INSTANCE:
If Stephen says he will study for the test, he will study for the test
All but the auxiliary of the second verb phrase can be deleted.

The result is
If Stephen says he will study for the test, he will
This transformation is called the VERB PHRASE DELETION RULE
INSERTION TRANSFORMATION AND SUBSTITUTIONAL
TRANSFORMATION

Kirsten Sazon
Abigail Abad
INSERTION TRANSFORMATION
-Words inserted into a basic sentence may not add meaning to the basic
sentence.
In the sentences

A1 He knew she was here

A2 He knew that she was here

That is inserted in the second sentence. But that has no meaning. In this
case, the addition of that is optional. However, consider the following:

B1 *He won the race is history

B2 That he won the race is history
 A sentence that is part of another sentence is called Embedded
sentence

SUBSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS
The only substitution transformations are those that substitute
a pronoun for some other part of speech or syntactic category.
For instance:
Tony thought that Tony was the best

Can become
Tony thought that he was the best.
OPTIONAL AND OBLIGATORY
TRANSFORMATION

Mary Faty Logronio

Rizza Millabas
Other Types of
Transformation
Another rule that is obligatory in English is called yes/no
question formation. It forms yes/no-type questions.

# Q Aaron will eat his lunch #

( The symbol # marks the beginning or end of a sentence)

The transformation simply involves moving the first

auxiliary verb to the left of the subject

Will Aaron eat his lunch?

In Japanese, a yes/no question is formed not by a
movement transformation as it is in English ,but by an
insertion transformation. The suffix –ka is inserted on
the end of a verb to form a question from a statement,
but the order of the words is not changed.

Kyou (watashi wa) gakkou ni ikimashita. ( (I) went to

school today.)
Kyou gakkou ni ikimashita ka? (Did you go to school
today?)
SEQUENCES OF TRANSFORMATIONS

SAMANTHA AMISTOSO
MARJORIE SIANO
RIKKA ATOLE
 SENTENCES:
1.Did the dog chase the cat?
2. The dog was blind.

ADULTS:

Did the blind dog chase the cat?

 Deep Structure 1. IQ the dog ( the dog was blind) chase the cat)
↓
Substitution T Relative Transformation
↓
2. IQ the dog ( which was blind) chased the cat)
↓
Deletion T be-Deletion transformation
↓
3. IQ the dog (blind) chased the cat)
↓
Movement T Adjective Movement Transformation
↓
4. IQ the blind dog chased the cat)
↓
Question Formulation transformation
Movement T ↓
Surface structure 5. Did the blind dog chase the cat?
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