PARSING: Parsing means resolving a sentence into its component parts and describing their syntactic roles.
<I'm going to London> is a sentence. Let us parse the sentence.
Usefulness:
(a) Parsing is a critical analysis. Once we're good at it, we'll be able to understand not just the English language but other languages as well. (b) Parsing will help us correct our own mistakes if and when we make them writing our Ph.D. thesis, our project reports or preparing an official lecture presentation.
So <I'm going to London> is a sentence -- the best way to parse a sentence is to ask ourselves questions and find answers -- and reflect why we're doing what we're doing.
Lesson_2:
How many words are there? There are 5 words. But when you count, you find 4 words, why? It's because you count two words as one (( I + am = I'm )). What's <I'm>?
<I'm> is a contracted form of the words <I> and <am> (used in informal English).
What is the first three words together talking about? The first three words <I'm going> together is talking about the subject <I> and the action <am going>.
Lesson_3:
What is the last two words together talking about? The last two words <to London> together is talking about the direction of the action as well as the destination. <I'm going> Where am I going? <I'm going> <to London>.
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Bear with us for a while. And once we begin to grasp the pattern of the language, you'll see, you can learn any of the European languages a lot better than most of your cohort - provided you follow the rules we set for you.
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<I'm going to London> Here the compound word I'm is the contracted form of I and am.
Lesson_4:
(1) <I'm going to London> Here 'to' is a preposition; to is followed by London, a noun -- the very name preposition suggests, it sits before a noun.
Lesson_5:
The prefix, 'pre' means before -- thus the word preposition implies that the preposition must sit before the position of a noun. So the syntax is: PREPOSITION + NOUN
Lesson_6:
Properties of the PREPOSITION:
(1) The FACT that the preposition sits before the noun is the Positional Property of the preposition.
Lesson_7:
There are other properties of the preposition.
(2) The preposition forms a phrase called the prepositional phrase -- Phrasal property.
(3) The prepositional phrase gives us a sense of statics or dynamics of the subject concerned -- State property.
(4) The preposition joins the prepositional phrase to the rest of the sentence -- Conjunctive property.
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