目的与要求 Students will learn: What syntax is; Categories: word level categories; phrase categories and their structures; Phrase structure rule Phrase elements Sentences (The S rule) TransformationsWhat is syntax? Syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies how words are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences. A simple version of transformational syntax will be introduced because it is the most popular and best known approach to syntactic analysis and beca