Thursday, September 17, 2009

SVOCA....


Tray Return Counter. ( Grammatically right??)

1st Analysis

Tray--> Subject
Return--> Verb
Counter --> Object

2nd Analysis

Counter for returning trays

Counter--> Subject
returning --> Verb
trays --> Object
I wonder where does 'for' goes under SVOCA...
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5 comments:

  1. R TangSeptember 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM

    Hi Su,

    Thanks for starting us off!

    There is something wrong with trying to analyse "Counter for returning trays" in terms of "SVOCA". Can you figure it out?

    Or someone else who feels they know, do feel free to jump in.

    R Tang.

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  2. sumathiSeptember 21, 2009 at 11:34 PM

    Dr Tang,

    Is it because of the prepositional post modifier phrase ' for returning trays' ?

    Is 'returning' non- finite here??

    :D
    Su

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  3. R TangSeptember 22, 2009 at 3:47 PM

    Hi. You're right when you say that "for returning trays" is a prepositional phrase postmodifier. So what kind of unit does that make "counter for returning trays"? (When do we talk about PP postmodifiers? Postmodifier of WHAT?)

    That's the first question. The next question then is: What kinds of units do we do SVOCA analysis on?

    Think about it. Will check back!

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  4. Mrs SohApril 15, 2010 at 9:15 PM

    So what's the answer? I really need to know..

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  5. UnknownMarch 10, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    In my opinion you can't use svoca here, it's not a sentence, they just gave that counter the name; 'Tray Return Counter'

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