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Syntactic Rules Essay

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Syntax is “a child combines words in a systematic way to create sentences that appear to follow rules rather than combining words in random fashion” (Gleason/Ratner, 2013, p.120) In Stage I is an example of a child learning how to use the syntactic rules is in two ways, the s-structures-structure = the surface structure or grammatical components (e.g., noun-verb-adjective infinitive verb) (EDUC, nd, p.2) where a child will put together words like “mommy sick” when mommy is not feeling good or “Daddy book” when a child wants a certain book. Next you have d-structure = “the deep structure, that is, the underlying relationships between the grammatical components of a sentence” Children begin to add more to the sentence, for example

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