Syntactic Analysis of sentence
I need to make a syntactic analysis of this sentence: "Without sustained immigration, economic growth will be notably slower." Can anyone help me? There is the following options: o, x, ⊗, Δ, □, ∼∼∼, Conjuction
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Hi Julius, I'm not sure about what level of syntactic analysis you want, but look at this: "Without sustained immigration," is a relative clause containing a preposition-adjective-noun, "economic growth will be notably slower." Is an independent clause containing an adjective-noun-future auxiliary-to be-adverb-adjective. Hope it helps!
"Without sustained immigration" is a dependent clause - without is a preposition, and 'sustained' is an adjective describing 'immigration' which is an abstract noun. 'Economic growth will be notably slower' is an independent clause - 'economic' is an adjective modifying 'growth' which is an abstract noun, 'will be' is a future tense of the infinitive verb 'to be', and 'slower' is an adverb modifying the verb 'will be'.
