Article Review About Syntax

Hello everybody, I'm Friska Natalia Sihotang. So this is my first blog. I was born December,02nd 1998. Now i continue my education at Lancang Kuning University in Pekanbaru,Riau. So i will tell my review article about Syntax, and i took the source from ilmubahasainggris.com article for my assignment of introduction of Linguistics. I choose that article because i think it is a good article.
 The first we will discuss about Linguistics. What is Linguistics? Generally, Linguistics is the scientific study of language and Lingistics has some branches, and one of them is Syntax.
What is Syntax?
syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies the rules that determine how words form phrases and phrases to form sentences. Etymologically the term syntax arranging the words into sentences and groups of words or groups of words into sentences.
There are two parts of a sentence that is very important in analyzing the syntax, those are: phrases and clauses
1. Phrase
Phrase is a group of words that has a function as a unit in a sentence (a group of words that form a grammatical unit). Phrase is divided into several, those are :
- Noun Phrase : is a phrase derived from nouns that serves as the subject or object of the sentence examples :
1) The Doctor
   det    noun
2) A   beautiful   girl
det   adjective noun
- Verb Phrase : is a phrase consisting of a combination of auxiliary verb with a verb examples :
Binar has taken the job.
          aux   verb
He has been coming late everyday.
      aux        verb
- Adjective Phrase : is a phrase that comes from the adjective used to qualify the nouns or pronoun example :
 Tony lost his dark brown briefcase.
                          AdjP
- Adverbial Phrase : is a phrase that functions as an adverb used to describe a verb example :
Mika usually gets up early.
         AdvP
- Prepositional Phrase : is phrase that describe of proposition a sentence example :
The book on the bathroom floor is swollen from shower steam.
                         Prep.P
2. Clause : 
- Independent Clause : is a clause that has a complete structure and potentially a major sentence.
- Dependent Clase :  is a clause which has a uncomplete sentence, usually accompanied by elements of subordinating conjunctions.

Example of Syntax tree:

1. The dog ate the bone

about critique : The weakness of this article is lack explanation in discussion of clause. But for all this article is easy to understand for generally.
  
So, Syntax is one of branches of Linguistics
that studies the rules that determine how words form phrases and phrases to form sentences. Etymologically the term syntax arranging the words into sentences and groups of words or groups of words into sentences.There are two parts of a sentence that is very important in analyzing the syntax, those are: phrases and clauses.



Source by : www.ilmubahasainggris.com/linguistic-pengertian-syntax-dan-penjelasan-serta-contohnya/