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The grammarian's lab

Manipulate the sentence to discover each group's function.

Some groups in the sentence are highlighted. Your job: figure out their function.

  • Pick a gesture (delete, move, replace, pronominalize).
  • Click a group in the sentence - see the result and whether it still works.
  • When you're sure, annotate each group with its function, then hand in your analysis.

Learning objective (CM1)

Discover the 4 grammarian's gestures (delete, move, replace, pronominalize) to spot the subject, direct object and adverbials in simple sentences.