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Syntactic analyzation of "My formidable grandmother was such a stickler for language that whenever she heard someone ask "Can I…" she would interrupt and snap back at them, "I don't know, can you? If you don't know yourself how would I know what you're capable of? If you're asking permission say 'May I…' "" This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	My	Possessive Pronoun.
2.	formidable	Adjective
3.	grandmother	Noun	Singular
4.	was	Verb	Past Tense.
5.	such	Adjective
6.	a	Determiner
7.	stickler	Noun	Singular
8.	for	Preposition
9.	language	Noun	Singular
10.	that	Preposition
11.	whenever	wh-abverb.
12.	she	Personal Pronoun.
13.	heard	Verb	Past Tense.
14.	someone	Noun	Singular
15.	ask	Verb	Base Form.
16.	``
17.	Can	Modal
18.	I…	Verb	Base Form.
19.	''
20.	she	Personal Pronoun.
21.	would	Modal
22.	interrupt	Verb	Base Form.
23.	and	Conjunction
24.	snap	Verb	Base Form.
25.	back	Adverb.
26.	at	Preposition
27.	them	Personal Pronoun.
28.	,
29.	``
30.	I	Personal Pronoun.
31.	do	Verb	Sing Present
32.	n't	Adverb.
33.	know	Verb	Base Form.
34.	,
35.	can	Modal
36.	you	Personal Pronoun.
37.	?	.
38.	If	Preposition
39.	you	Personal Pronoun.
40.	do	Verb	Sing Present
41.	n't	Adverb.
42.	know	Verb	Base Form.
43.	yourself	Personal Pronoun.
44.	how	wh-abverb.
45.	would	Modal
46.	I	Personal Pronoun.
47.	know	Verb	Base Form.
48.	what	wh-pronoun.
49.	you	Personal Pronoun.
50.	're	Verb	Sing Present
51.	capable	Adjective
52.	of	Preposition
53.	?	.
54.	If	Preposition
55.	you	Personal Pronoun.
56.	're	Verb	Sing Present
57.	asking	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
58.	permission	Noun	Singular
59.	say	Verb	Sing Present
60.	'May	Noun	Singular
61.	I…	Noun	Singular
62.	'
63.	``

Eight parts of speech

Below you can see a brief explanation of the eight main parts of speech. Memorize each word type to get a better understanding of the composition of a sentence.

Noun

A noun names a person, place, things or idea. Examples dog, cat, horse, student, teacher, apple, Mary etc...

Adverb

An adverb tells how often, ho, when, where. It can describe a verb, an adjective or an adverb. Examples loudly, always, never, later, soon etc...

Verb

A verb is a word or group of words that desribes an action, experience. Examples realize, walk, see, look, sing, sit, listen etc...

Adjective

An adjective describes a noun or pronoun. Examples red, tall, fat, long, short, blue, beautiful, sour etc...

Preposition

A preposition is used before a noun, pronoun, or gerund to show place, time, direction in a sentence. Examples at, in, to, for, from etc...

Conjuction

Conjuntions join words or groups of words in a sentence. Examples and, because, yet, therefore, moreover, since, or, so, until, but etc...

Pronoun

Pronouns replace the name of a person, place, thing or idea in a sentence. Examples he, she it, we, they, him, her, this, that etc...

Interjection

Interjections express strong emotion and is often followed by an exclamation point. Examples Bravo! Hooray! Yeah! Oops! Phew!

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