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Syntactic analyzation of "Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny coral creatures called polyps. Each soft-bodied polyp—most no thicker than a nickel—secretes a hard outer skeleton of limestone (calcium carbonate) that attaches either to rock or the dead skeletons of other polyps." This text has been automatically tagged.

#	Word	Part of speech	Syntactic relation
1.	Most	Adjective	Superlative
2.	structures	Noun	Plural
3.	that	Preposition
4.	we	Personal Pronoun.
5.	call	Verb	Sing Present
6.	``
7.	coral	Noun	Singular
8.	''
9.	are	Verb	Sing Present
10.	,
11.	in	Preposition
12.	fact	Noun	Singular
13.	,
14.	made	Verb	Past Tense.
15.	up	Particle.
16.	of	Preposition
17.	hundreds	Noun	Plural
18.	to	to.
19.	thousands	Noun	Plural
20.	of	Preposition
21.	tiny	Adjective
22.	coral	Noun	Singular
23.	creatures	Noun	Plural
24.	called	Verb	Past Participle.
25.	polyps	Noun	Plural
26.	.	.
27.	Each	Determiner
28.	soft-bodied	Adjective
29.	polyp—most	Noun	Singular
30.	no	Adverb.
31.	thicker	Adjective	Comparative
32.	than	Preposition
33.	a	Determiner
34.	nickel—secretes	Noun	Plural
35.	a	Determiner
36.	hard	Adjective
37.	outer	Adjective
38.	skeleton	Noun	Singular
39.	of	Preposition
40.	limestone	Foreign Word
41.	(	Foreign Word
42.	calcium	Noun	Singular
43.	carbonate	Noun	Singular
44.	)	Noun	Singular
45.	that	wh-determiner.
46.	attaches	Verb	3rd person sing.
47.	either	Conjunction
48.	to	to.
49.	rock	Verb	Base Form.
50.	or	Conjunction
51.	the	Determiner
52.	dead	Adjective
53.	skeletons	Noun	Plural
54.	of	Preposition
55.	other	Adjective
56.	polyps	Noun	Plural
57.	.	.

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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