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Syntactic analyzation of "Mary and Tom thought it would be a shame if much of the oral history they had so patiently gathered were to be lost because of not being written down. Because neither of them knew shorthand, they bought an audio recorder so that they could better enjoy their visits with Tom's three living grandparents without having to focus on taking careful written notes." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	Mary	Proper Noun	Singular
2.	and	Conjunction
3.	Tom	Proper Noun	Singular
4.	thought	Verb	Past Tense.
5.	it	Personal Pronoun.
6.	would	Modal
7.	be	Verb	Base Form.
8.	a	Determiner
9.	shame	Noun	Singular
10.	if	Preposition
11.	much	Adjective
12.	of	Preposition
13.	the	Determiner
14.	oral	Adjective
15.	history	Noun	Singular
16.	they	Personal Pronoun.
17.	had	Verb	Past Tense.
18.	so	Adverb.
19.	patiently	Adverb.
20.	gathered	Verb	Past Participle.
21.	were	Verb	Past Tense.
22.	to	to.
23.	be	Verb	Base Form.
24.	lost	Verb	Past Participle.
25.	because	Adverb.
26.	of	Preposition
27.	not	Adverb.
28.	being	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
29.	written	Verb	Past Participle.
30.	down	Particle.
31.	.	.
32.	Because	Preposition
33.	neither	Determiner
34.	of	Preposition
35.	them	Personal Pronoun.
36.	knew	Verb	Past Tense.
37.	shorthand	Noun	Singular
38.	,
39.	they	Personal Pronoun.
40.	bought	Verb	Past Tense.
41.	an	Determiner
42.	audio	Adjective
43.	recorder	Noun	Singular
44.	so	Preposition
45.	that	Preposition
46.	they	Personal Pronoun.
47.	could	Modal
48.	better	Adverb	Comparative.
49.	enjoy	Verb	Base Form.
50.	their	Possessive Pronoun.
51.	visits	Noun	Plural
52.	with	Preposition
53.	Tom	Proper Noun	Singular
54.	's	Possessive Ending.
55.	three	Cardinal Digit
56.	living	Noun	Singular
57.	grandparents	Noun	Plural
58.	without	Preposition
59.	having	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
60.	to	to.
61.	focus	Verb	Base Form.
62.	on	Preposition
63.	taking	Verb	Gerund/Present Participle.
64.	careful	Adjective
65.	written	Adjective
66.	notes	Noun	Plural
67.	.	.

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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