The document discusses various methods used by structural linguists to analyze the syntax of English, including analyzing words based on inflectional paradigms, derivational paradigms, intonation patterns, word order, and function words. It describes analyzing sentences by dividing them into immediate constituents and identifying noun phrases, verb phrases, and other phrase types. It also discusses analyzing sentences based on basic sentence patterns and expanding the relationships between parts.

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