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    What Is Chinese Boxes

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    Chinese boxes are a method for analyzing sentence structure by representing constituent relationships through nested rectangles. A noun phrase can consist of a noun alone or include optional determiners, adjectives, or prepositional phrases modifying the noun. A prepositional phrase is a group of words including a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object.

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    What Is Chinese Boxes

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    Chinese boxes are a method for analyzing sentence structure by representing constituent relationships through nested rectangles. A noun phrase can consist of a noun alone or include optional determiners, adjectives, or prepositional phrases modifying the noun. A prepositional phrase is a group of words including a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object.

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    Chinese boxes are a method for analyzing sentence structure by representing constituent relationships through nested rectangles. A noun phrase can consist of a noun alone or include optional determiners, adjectives, or prepositional phrases modifying the noun. A prepositional phrase is a group of words including a preposition, its object, and any modifiers of the object.

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    What is Chinese boxes

     Chinese box is the explanation unit of analyzing by mean of sentences formation in larger
    unit proposed by Nelson Francis
     Chineese boxes are constructed of rectangles in such a way as to show the relationship of
    formation by box formation. The formation of one element in another (a constituent) and
    the formation by one element of another (a constituent) are shown as the formation of
    areas in box.

    Noun Phrase Structure

    The basic and simplest noun phrase structure contain only a noun (usually a proper noun, pronoun,
    mass noun or plural noun).

    NP → N

    Example : box

    NP → box

    Other than basic noun phrase structure, there are many kind of noun phrase structre that are more
    complex than basic one.

    1. Noun phrase is optionally added by determiner, this will generate a rules like
    NP → (D)N

    To indicate the optionally we need to bracket in the rules, meanwhile noun in anoun phrase
    structure is a obligation so we don’t need to put bracket in the rules.
    Example : the box

    NP →
    The box
    D N
    2. A noun is optionally by adjective, this will generate rules and a Chinese box like :
    NP → (D) (Adj) N
    Example : The big box

    The big box


    →

    D AdjP N
    3. Other than two rules, noun phrase also takes prepositional phrase modifiers, that will
    generate rules and Chinese box like this :
    NP → (D) (AdjP) N (PP)
    Example : The big box of crayons.

    NP →

    The big box Of Crayons


    →

    D AdjP N
    PP

    Prepositional Phrase

     Definition : a prepositional phrase is a group of words that consists of preposition, its


    object (wich will be noun or pronoun), and any words that modify the object.
     Common prepositional phrase example include : about, after, at, before, behind,
    during, for, from, in, of, ovr, pass, to, under and with
     Formula : 1. Preposition + object of prepostition
    2. preposition + modifier +object of preposition

    Prepositional functions :

    1. as an adverb

    Example : dawn is tired from the hike.

    2. as an adjective

    Example : I just met a girl with brown eyes

    3. as the indicator of subject

    Example : the book is written by his mother

    4. as a complement to the two in the sentence

    Example : they bought the Nintendo for me

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