Question

For each of the following strings of words:

1. First state whether they are syntactically ill-formed because of word order, a violation of co-occurrence requirements, or both.

2. Correct the sentence – underline or highlight your corrections. This may including adding needed arguments

3. As needed explain what specifically was needed to create a well formed sentence.(see example)

Example: Jake feel

1) co-occurrence
2) Jake feels happy
3) corrected verb tense (subject verb agreement) and added required complement for verb "feels" (happy)

a.Sleeps sally

1.Word Order
2.Sally sleeps
3.Corrected word order (subject then verb)

Answer 1

1. A violation of co-occurence?

2. Including adding needed?

3. As needed was needed?

Step-by-step explanation:

1. Co-occurence refers to when terms occurs in the same document that don´t necessarily need to be adjacent. It has nothing to do with syntax, the linguistic study of the rules that govern our sentences. Furthermore, violation is a quite violent term in this innocent case.

We can happily shorten the sentence in:

First state whether they are syntactically ill-formed because of word order. Period.

2. The double use of progressive tense (including adding) is incorrect; and needed is not needed either. So it could be something like:

... This may include adding arguments.

3. I would substitute As for If. Or maybe get rid of the first needed anyway. Two times needed doesn´t help to create a nicely and well formed sentence. So let´s think of something else:

Explain what specifically was needed to create etc.