<p>I figured many would benefit from this. I know that this is very crucial in near-eastern languages, and it must be in Latin/Germanic ones to, since it’s the best and the most accurate method to inetrpret and understand ANY text.</p>
<p>This is the best practice you can have, or you will get rusty and forget this stuff. Suggestions welcome!</p>
<p>Here is how it goes:</p>
<p>1) Correct any mistakes you see in the post above yours.</p>
<p>2) Analyze the sentence in the post above yours.</p>
<p>3)Write another sentence to be analyzed. Be creative, recpectful, funny within limits, and brief.</p>
<p>4) Answer questions about your analysis.</p>
<p>Analyses to be performed at the word-level only, unless you feel it’s neccessery to point out something in a phrase or the whole sentence.</p>
<p>e.g. The crazy camel stomped the sleeping bedouin.</p>
<p>Analysis:
The: Definite article/determiner</p>
<p>Crazy: Central, attributive, inherent, dynamic adjective. It’s gradable</p>
<p>Camel: Common, count-noun. (has singular and plural forms)</p>
<p>Stomped: Simple past-tense verb</p>
<p>Sleeping: Peripheral, attributive, inherent, stative
adjective. Non-gradable.</p>
<p>Bedouin: is a poor, stomped man:) (common noun is my best guess)</p>
<p>“The crazy camel” Subject & “stomped…etc” Predicate</p>
<p>Well, this wasn’t very brief afterall. But you get the idea. Also use whatever terminology you’re comfortable with as long as you’re willing to explain it when questioned.</p>
<p>Sentence to be analyzed (STBA): The Smurfs’ soundtrack makes me nostalgic.</p>