OH MY GOD I WAS COMPLETELY DESPERATE ABOUT MY SYNTAX EXAM AND I JUST FOUND THIS VIDEO AND I CAN SAY THAT IT'S A LIFESAVER ALL MY SUPPORT. Love the fact that you use colours and explain everything in so much detail. Whether I pass or not I'll be forever thankful hahaha
It was an excellent video. I wish I watched this before I took the course last semester. I am 68 years old and returned to college after 30 years. The course I took really had me confused. This explanation basically resolve my confusion completely. Can teach an old dog... LOL. By the way I failed the course, but learned it is Ok to fail. It forced me to try to find and answers to why.
Can I ask you a question about this assignment I have. The question says: The following sentence has an argument and an adjunct: A New York man shot three men at 12pm. Use though-preposing test to distinguish between the argument and the adjunct. please can you explain
Hi Özge! I assume you had this exam in your college years, and I'd like to know what you were studying and what lecture it was the test of. Now I'm studying English Language Teaching and am curious.
It's 1am in Paris and I just realised a couple of hours ago that my syntax exam is tomorrow morning. This has helped me tremendously. You really know how to synthesise and simplify information! I can't thank you enough.
I don't know how you made this so clear that I understood it so much better than in lectures.I'm not pulling my hair out at 3am for my linguistic final in a couple of days anymore. Thank you so much.
Can I ask you a question about this assignment I have. The question says: The following sentence has an argument and an adjunct: A New York man shot three men at 12pm. Use though-preposing test to distinguish between the argument and the adjunct. please can you explain
You saved hundreds of students majoring English and preparing for the upcoming test of syntax, even though this useful video has been updated for more than 7 years. Thank you for helping me pass the final examthis subject is quite complicated and hope everything goes well😮💨
This is amazing! English is my second language and I struggled a lot with sentence structure. This video made it a lot easier for me to fully understand the X-bar theory. :3
Can I ask you a question about this assignment I have. The question says: The following sentence has an argument and an adjunct: A New York man shot three men at 12pm. Use though-preposing test to distinguish between the argument and the adjunct. please can you explain
This was so helpful! Thank you so much! I never understood why to use the bars, and after three semesters trying to pass this subject I think I'm finally going to!
i have an exam in Morphosyntax after tomorrow. I really was sooo confused abt the x bar Theory..but this video was so helpful to me..thank you for your hard work..
This might genuinely save me from a pandemic-stricken remote Fall semester while I'm participating in a study abroad program on the other side of the world. I definitely do not have access to resources (and the professor) that students on campus do and I've been confused and overwhelmed by tree structures. Probably overthinking as well! We're given extremely complex sentences to diagram out for our first two assignments and I felt so dejected when I completely missed the mark on the first. Thank you for making this much better to understand! (And as someone with ADHD the color coding was VERY needed and appreciated thank you!)
youre a lifesaver, i'm taking a linguistic course rn as one of my subjects, but i dont have the same background info that the other students have >.> !! thank you so much !!!
thank you for this! i'm studying at uni in germany this year and i was writing out lecture notes from the x-bar-theorie lecture (which was obviously auf deutsch) and was completely lost, so glad i managed to find this vid because it made so much more sense to me!
Thanks a lot,, kindly analyse for me the following sentence using x-bar theory; 1. The fact that you spoke improved matters. 2. The speech that you made improved matters
Merci pour cette vidéo, même si les symboles utilisés ne sont pas les mêmes dans mes cours français. Par exemple : N" > N' > N° > map. Ca m'a beaucoup aidé !!
Hi. Thanks for this video; it's awesome. I do have a question, though: Why is quickly an adverb phrase rather than just an adverb? Again, Thanks for these videos you are a modern-day Steve Rogers!
Thanks for the explanation! I have a question, though. In the last sentence, shouldn't the two adjuncts "old" and "from Washington" be at the same level? They both modify the noun man.
Thank you so much for your explanation. I have a question, please. In these examples we can work with IP instead of NP or VP or PP. please could you reply to as soon as possible
I'm currently learning for an exam in a German pragmatic / syntax seminar, where we need to apply the X-Bar theory to the German language and I gotta admit, it makes me hate my own language so much :'D
Dear, I appreciate your effort with best wishes in the days to come. You made the topic quite understandable which was made difficult by some teaches. Would you send me some source/link which can provide me more diagrams on X-Bar Theory? Best Regards
Hi, Trev. Thank you so much for this video. I learned a lot. But may I know why there is a need to put a bar for phrases with only a word like ‘night’ in your example “eat at night”? I will be waiting for response. Thank you very much!!!
In a theory like minimalism it’s not necessary, but most instructors teaching X-bar at first ask for all nodes because they determine specifier, adjunct, and complements.
Wow this is super helpful coz the X-bar rules are literally integrated into the tree-drawing process you know. Not sure if I make myself understood but just want to say that this video is definitely an aha moment for me. Syntax would not have been so painful had I discovered this earlier. Tnx Trevor!
Question: Isn’t “the old man” a noun phrase and “from Washington” it’s adjunct? So that they meet at the top as a seperate NP and a PP? Just like in “the old map of Canada with a glossy legend”?
"from Washington" is an adjunct before "the" takes effect; therefore you could group (old man) from Washington, or old (man from Washington) and it would be similarly valid
Regarding, The map with a glossy legend of Canada is the adjunct and complement now labelled wrong if it was the original sentence? The map (with a glossy legend) complement (of Canada) adjunct? Also can you give an example if a sentence with two adjuncts?
At around 19:44, how do you decide if [from Washington] is required information or not? What if it's "important to the story"? What am I missing here? I'm having an issue determining what's "necessary" or not.
Important to the story is not relevant. We are doing a syntactic analyze of the phrases. After you removed the phrase, sentence stays grammatical. For example, try with the phrase "crates of fish".
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I learned more from the first 10 minutes of this video than I did in my 3 hour lecture. Thanks so much
Agreed
Agreed, fantastic video!
Agreeed
Some professors even make it more complicated
you have just saved my grade. My lectures are beyond boring and confusing. Your explanations are simple and clear! I can not thank you enough!!!
OH MY GOD I WAS COMPLETELY DESPERATE ABOUT MY SYNTAX EXAM AND I JUST FOUND THIS VIDEO AND I CAN SAY THAT IT'S A LIFESAVER ALL MY SUPPORT. Love the fact that you use colours and explain everything in so much detail. Whether I pass or not I'll be forever thankful hahaha
Did you actually pass?
I am also watching this on the day before my final exam, it is very helpful because I really didn't understand X' theory previously
It was an excellent video. I wish I watched this before I took the course last semester. I am 68 years old and returned to college after 30 years. The course I took really had me confused. This explanation basically resolve my confusion completely. Can teach an old dog... LOL. By the way I failed the course, but learned it is Ok to fail. It forced me to try to find and answers to why.
Great
Hope you the best
Never Give up
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Ohhhhh
Can u please help me to make my assignment on this topic...
Kindly define this in your own words so that i can easily understand
After watching these , I passed my syntax exam with a perfect exam paper. Thanks Trev, your videos are awesome!!
Congratulations!
Well done!
Can I ask you a question about this assignment I have.
The question says:
The following sentence has an argument and an adjunct:
A New York man shot three men at 12pm.
Use though-preposing test to distinguish between the argument and the adjunct.
please can you explain
why are you still here after your exams dude !!!
Hi Özge! I assume you had this exam in your college years, and I'd like to know what you were studying and what lecture it was the test of. Now I'm studying English Language Teaching and am curious.
It's 1am in Paris and I just realised a couple of hours ago that my syntax exam is tomorrow morning. This has helped me tremendously. You really know how to synthesise and simplify information! I can't thank you enough.
So how did your exam went?
I don't know how you made this so clear that I understood it so much better than in lectures.I'm not pulling my hair out at 3am for my linguistic final in a couple of days anymore. Thank you so much.
Can I ask you a question about this assignment I have.
The question says:
The following sentence has an argument and an adjunct:
A New York man shot three men at 12pm.
Use though-preposing test to distinguish between the argument and the adjunct.
please can you explain
You saved hundreds of students majoring English and preparing for the upcoming test of syntax, even though this useful video has been updated for more than 7 years. Thank you for helping me pass the final examthis subject is quite complicated and hope everything goes well😮💨
Thank you, you helped +45,600 students till now!
This is literally amazing. I really admire your teaching skills, specially the use of colorful markers and teaching at a considerate speed.
I hope you know that even five years after being uploaded, this video totally saved my final assignment
I spent weeks on X-bar theory and honestly I was so desperate about it but now I am so happy that I finally started to get it! Thank you so much Trev!
I’m a Chinese undergraduate majored in English, this video is really very helpful when I’m studying syntax. Thank u sooooo much!!!!!
This is amazing! English is my second language and I struggled a lot with sentence structure. This video made it a lot easier for me to fully understand the X-bar theory. :3
The most helpful video i've found. Thank you so much for simplifying everything.
Can I ask you a question about this assignment I have.
The question says:
The following sentence has an argument and an adjunct:
A New York man shot three men at 12pm.
Use though-preposing test to distinguish between the argument and the adjunct.
please can you explain
This was so helpful! Thank you so much! I never understood why to use the bars, and after three semesters trying to pass this subject I think I'm finally going to!
FINALLY someone made this almost understandable. I still hate it, but I love you for making me grasp parts of the concept.
I have final exam in exactly 4 hours and I was desperately looking for videos about the x bar theory, luckily I found yours! Thank you so much
I’m a student from Korea majoring English translation. I had hard time w/ syntax but I learned alot through ur video. Thanks alot !
I know everyone tells you this but you're seriously god-sent.
i have an exam in Morphosyntax after tomorrow. I really was sooo confused abt the x bar Theory..but this video was so helpful to me..thank you for your hard work..
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This might genuinely save me from a pandemic-stricken remote Fall semester while I'm participating in a study abroad program on the other side of the world. I definitely do not have access to resources (and the professor) that students on campus do and I've been confused and overwhelmed by tree structures. Probably overthinking as well! We're given extremely complex sentences to diagram out for our first two assignments and I felt so dejected when I completely missed the mark on the first. Thank you for making this much better to understand!
(And as someone with ADHD the color coding was VERY needed and appreciated thank you!)
thanks very much , such an intelligent instructor, really appreciate your great effort..... post graduate student from Egypt
I wish I could like it every time I watch it . this is pure gold.. thanks a lot sir
Thanks a lot Trev. This video cleared up my doubts about the specific positions of specifiers, adjuncts, and complements.
I can't imagine I get to learn all this for free. Thank you a lot for the lecture.
its 3 AM i have a syntax exam today and i want to kiss you you have no idea how much this explained more than my textbook
Great video. I've got an X-bar exam in two weeks. Very well explained. Very helpful. Thank you very much.
I find this extremely helpful for my syntax revision. Thank you so much for making this video!
youre a lifesaver, i'm taking a linguistic course rn as one of my subjects, but i dont have the same background info that the other students have >.> !! thank you so much !!!
Thank you so much, watching you explain and draw helps a lot compared to someone reading off slides.
thank you for this! i'm studying at uni in germany this year and i was writing out lecture notes from the x-bar-theorie lecture (which was obviously auf deutsch) and was completely lost, so glad i managed to find this vid because it made so much more sense to me!
Amazing how you mananged to explain this complex notion so easily and clearly
Totally fan of your tutorials
Damn! Finally I get it! I was really desperated, because I thought I was too stupid, but I just needed the right way of explaination. Thanks!
Thanks a lot,, kindly analyse for me the following sentence using x-bar theory;
1. The fact that you spoke improved matters.
2. The speech that you made improved matters
You literally saved me for tomorrow's exam. Thank you.
Thank you for explaining it in so detail! I understand almost just need some more practices!
bro you're the star of my life
Great tutorial! Greetings from Hacettepe Linguistics, Turkey. :))))
17:40 "I'm going to do his wife like this" Oh my :)))
RUclips will always be better than our lecturers 😂
Great videos 👍
Merci pour cette vidéo, même si les symboles utilisés ne sont pas les mêmes dans mes cours français. Par exemple : N" > N' > N° > map. Ca m'a beaucoup aidé !!
Hi. Thanks for this video; it's awesome. I do have a question, though: Why is quickly an adverb phrase rather than just an adverb?
Again, Thanks for these videos you are a modern-day Steve Rogers!
Thank you so much I learned a lot from your video cause my teacher sucks.... Really thank you
I love how this is so helpful for teaching students English. :P
Talking about the theory, not your video. haha
omg thank you soo much! I was all lost with my teacher, now its clear and easy! thank you forever
Your explanation is awesome!! Thank you so much. Well explained and so clear.
Thank you so much for that. I cannot miss out to be following you around! for more:)
Thank you sir. Little bit my concept is clear now I'm watching it twice.
Wow, that helped a lot!! I was really struggling to understand my lecture but this explained it perfectly
I like how this guy sings when he lectures 😁
I LOVE YOU hahaha Thank you! This IS how my class of Syntax should be
thank you! i have syntax exam tomorrow, and at least i understand it a bit better now!!!
Understood. (waiting for DP-structure/hypothesis). Thanks a lot.
Though it's my first time to come across such interesting topic, it got a good part of your explanation. Thanks
This is amazing,,I was able to understand the concept easily thanks to you
Thank you so much for your videos on syntax Trev! you're amazing!!!!
fortunately, I comprehend this video, thanks so much.
Thanks for the explanation! I have a question, though. In the last sentence, shouldn't the two adjuncts "old" and "from Washington" be at the same level? They both modify the noun man.
Love you! Thank You so much for these videos. 🙏🙇♂
I'm eagerly waiting for you to make a semantics course.
Thank you so much for your help, Linguistic students from all over thank you!
What a beautiful explanation! Thank you so much😊
Thank you so much for your explanation. I have a question, please. In these examples we can work with IP instead of NP or VP or PP. please could you reply to as soon as possible
Thank you for your amazing channel and tutorials! I have a question, does a determiner ever have a D' ( d bar) level? Thank you.
In the sentence "Elephants develop a great bond with their handlers", would "with their handlers" be a complement?
At 17:38 he says "and I'm going to do his wife like this" :'D TrevTutor thuggin hard? Shoutout Fetty Wap?
Omg you are amazing..thank you for this detailed explanation..❤❤❤
In the Determiner Phrase hypothesis of the Noun Phrase, would the noun then be the specifier of the Determiner?
Thanks very much for explaining it all the way from the basics
I'm currently learning for an exam in a German pragmatic / syntax seminar, where we need to apply the X-Bar theory to the German language and I gotta admit, it makes me hate my own language so much :'D
Oh thank you so much that helped me a lot. Your explanation is excellent
This is a beautifully executed lecture
Thank you very much for this explanation! Are there any problematic points of this theory? Any unresolved questions? Many thanks!
Thank you you’re a great teacher 💓💓
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this is a real enlightment for me! thank you! :D
17:40 "I'm going to do his wife like this" lmao. great video by the way, it helped a lot!
Dear, I appreciate your effort with best wishes in the days to come. You made the topic quite understandable which was made difficult by some teaches.
Would you send me some source/link which can provide me more diagrams on X-Bar Theory?
Best Regards
thank you so much you're vere specific in your explanations and it helps a ton!
Thank you for this!
Really helpful and clear, thank your
Thanks a bunch, Trevor.
You're awesome!
Thank you for the immense help. I was wondering how we draw a tree for a VP with two compliments (ditransitive verbs). Thank you in advance!
Excellent lesson.
Nice and easy to understand. Love it.
5:00 I think you made a mistake because quickly isn't a determiner its an adjunct? or did I misunderstand
Please solve me this examples:
into the house
Fixed the telephone
Full of mistakes
More towards the window
A film about pollution
Hi, Trev. Thank you so much for this video. I learned a lot. But may I know why there is a need to put a bar for phrases with only a word like ‘night’ in your example “eat at night”?
I will be waiting for response. Thank you very much!!!
In a theory like minimalism it’s not necessary, but most instructors teaching X-bar at first ask for all nodes because they determine specifier, adjunct, and complements.
What a greeeeaaaaaat lecture!!!! Thanks a lot!!!!!!
First I have to thank you for your videos. thank you so much
but I have a question
adverbs are adjuncts or specifiers?
its not clear
thank you again
Wow this is super helpful coz the X-bar rules are literally integrated into the tree-drawing process you know. Not sure if I make myself understood but just want to say that this video is definitely an aha moment for me. Syntax would not have been so painful had I discovered this earlier. Tnx Trevor!
Voice crack at 19:49
Sorry man
Thank you for the content ❤
Damn man ... what a PERFECT explanation ... great job :D
Question: Isn’t “the old man” a noun phrase and “from Washington” it’s adjunct? So that they meet at the top as a seperate NP and a PP? Just like in “the old map of Canada with a glossy legend”?
"from Washington" is an adjunct before "the" takes effect; therefore you could group (old man) from Washington, or old (man from Washington) and it would be similarly valid
thank you so much . you are a life saver
I want to ask, what the main motivation of the theory is?
According to this every language is constructed the same way.
Regarding, The map with a glossy legend of Canada is the adjunct and complement now labelled wrong if it was the original sentence? The map (with a glossy legend) complement (of Canada) adjunct?
Also can you give an example if a sentence with two adjuncts?
At around 19:44, how do you decide if [from Washington] is required information or not? What if it's "important to the story"? What am I missing here? I'm having an issue determining what's "necessary" or not.
Important to the story is not relevant. We are doing a syntactic analyze of the phrases. After you removed the phrase, sentence stays grammatical. For example, try with the phrase "crates of fish".
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