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Syntactic analyzation of "Just as Tom was about to post the letter into the postbox, the wind whipped it out of his hand and blew it under a passing bus, which could do nothing but drive over it with its fat tyres and squash it flat into a puddle." This text has been automatically tagged.
| # | Word | Part of speech | Syntactic relation |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Just | Adverb. | ||
| 2. | as | Preposition | ||
| 3. | Tom | Proper Noun | Singular | |
| 4. | was | Verb | Past Tense. | |
| 5. | about | Preposition | ||
| 6. | to | to. | ||
| 7. | post | Verb | Base Form. | |
| 8. | the | Determiner | ||
| 9. | letter | Noun | Singular | |
| 10. | into | Preposition | ||
| 11. | the | Determiner | ||
| 12. | postbox | Noun | Singular | |
| 13. | , | |||
| 14. | the | Determiner | ||
| 15. | wind | Noun | Singular | |
| 16. | whipped | Verb | Past Tense. | |
| 17. | it | Personal Pronoun. | ||
| 18. | out | Preposition | ||
| 19. | of | Preposition | ||
| 20. | his | Possessive Pronoun. | ||
| 21. | hand | Noun | Singular | |
| 22. | and | Conjunction | ||
| 23. | blew | Verb | Past Tense. | |
| 24. | it | Personal Pronoun. | ||
| 25. | under | Preposition | ||
| 26. | a | Determiner | ||
| 27. | passing | Noun | Singular | |
| 28. | bus | Noun | Singular | |
| 29. | , | |||
| 30. | which | wh-determiner. | ||
| 31. | could | Modal | ||
| 32. | do | Verb | Base Form. | |
| 33. | nothing | Noun | Singular | |
| 34. | but | Conjunction | ||
| 35. | drive | Noun | Singular | |
| 36. | over | Preposition | ||
| 37. | it | Personal Pronoun. | ||
| 38. | with | Preposition | ||
| 39. | its | Possessive Pronoun. | ||
| 40. | fat | Adjective | ||
| 41. | tyres | Noun | Plural | |
| 42. | and | Conjunction | ||
| 43. | squash | Verb | Sing Present | |
| 44. | it | Personal Pronoun. | ||
| 45. | flat | Adjective | ||
| 46. | into | Preposition | ||
| 47. | a | Determiner | ||
| 48. | puddle | Noun | Singular | |
| 49. | . | . | ||
Eight parts of speech
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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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