Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Be-heading (sentences)

As I mentioned we recently discussed empty heads in my syntax class (see previous post). Then, this week in my grammar class we discussed be-heading. This happens when you parse (indicate the grammatical functions of various parts of a sentence) a sentence but leave out the head (the word that controls the whole sentence). In my English grammar class this happens quite frequently. Those poor sentences...

I think I might just have a headache after all of this.

Also, I decided that it would be better not to do an image search for be-heading, so here is a cartoon in it's place: