Understanding Language Syntax and Structure: A Practitioner's Guide to NLP

For any language, syntax and structure usually go hand in hand, where a set of specific rules, conventions, and principles govern the way words are combined into phrases; phrases get combines into clauses; and clauses get combined into sentences. We will be talking specifically about the English language syntax and structure in this section. In English, words usually combine together to form other constituent units. These constituents include words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. Considering a sentence, "The brown fox is quick and he is jumping over the lazy dog", it is made of a bunch of words and just looking at the words by themselves don't tell us much.