Grammatical and ungrammatical English sentence? Semantic relationship between colors?

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watsup - 05 Dec 2005 20:24 GMT

Dear members,

I have some confusing questions about syntax and semantics. My friend
has introduced me this forum recently and I strongly believe that you
all will give me helpful explanations. I would appreciate your help
much. These are the problems:

1) what is a grammar in the form of a list of pharse structue rules
needed to generate all of the below pharse structures rules:
a) S-> Det N V Adj N
b) S-> Det N PP V NP PP
c) S-> NP V PP
d) S-> PP V NP
e) S-> NP V NP NP
f) S-> NP V Det N PP

2) what is the difference between grammatical and ungrammatical English
sentence that CAN be generated by this above grammar, as well as that
CAN NOT be generated by this above grammar? Give me examples, please!

3) what is the semantic relationship between colors?

Thank you very much for your all helps. I am looking forward to hearing
from you.

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John Ramsay - 06 Dec 2005 03:08 GMT

> Dear members,
>
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> e) S-> NP V NP NP
> f) S-> NP V Det N PP

Above is 'transformational grammar'. Try a web search
for more details.

You also need to know that grammar is an overall term.

Actually, transformational grammar would be better called
transformational syntax (sentence structure).

But Noam Chomsky included both in the title of his book,
on the subject/s. Adding confusion to what was
supposed to clarify -:)

> 2) what is the difference between grammatical and ungrammatical English
> sentence that CAN be generated by this above grammar, as well as that
> CAN NOT be generated by this above grammar? Give me examples, please!

You can have a grammatical error in English with the sentence structure.

Try a web search for 'sentence faults'.

Or with misuse of words within the sentence.

that comes under the heading of 'usage.'

> 3) what is the semantic relationship between colors?

There are the primary colours but then shades of meaning.

Red is a primary colour but ruby, scarlet, pink indicate
deeper or lighter shades.

Check a dictionary or a thesaurus.

> Thank you very much for your all helps. I am looking forward to hearing
> from you.

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