Tuesday, September 23, 2008

PARSE

to break a sentence down into grammatical components

to analyze bit by bit

/analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)

"He needed some to parse this sentence so that he could understand the mechanics of writing."

"He decided that he would start the rather time-consuming task of parsing every sentence in Ulysseus so that a reader's guide could be produced that would allow someone to read ulysseus and learn grammar at the same time."

"She just wanted some simple advice not for him to parse her entire paper."

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