Identifying Basic Grammar Patterns

In this blog post, I will take the longest paragraph in my QRG and perform an analysis of the structure and conventions of that paragraph. Specifically, I will look at the parts of speech, sentence structure and several other aspects of the paragraph. I will also reflect on my paragraph dissection and think about what it taught me.

Screenshot from my computer, 9/26/2015

Reflection

Unfortunately, google docs was being weird for me so I did the analysis by hand. I did, however, learn important things about my writing from this exercise. For one, I learned that my sentence variety was quite poor. I'll certainly be looking at changing sentences throughout my QRG to make it easier to read and more engaging. That's really the only grammatical change I feel needs significant work.

Parts of Speech

Noun - Artificial intelligence (line 1)

Verb - exhibit (line 3)

Pronoun - we (line 7)

Conjunction -  and (line 2)

Article - the (line 1)

Adjective - human-like (line 3)


Three sentence patterns

"AI has yet to become true Artificial general intelligence(AGI)" (line 1)

"This is the type of AI displayed in fictitious novels and books, and it is defined as the ability of a machine to exhibit complex, human-like decision making and cognizance." (lines 1-3)

"The distinction between artificial general intelligence and neural networks is the level of cognizance in the machine. (lines 3-5)


Subordinate word group

"of a machine" (line 2)

Sentence structures

Compound - "This is the type of AI displayed in fictitious novels and books, and it is defined as the ability of a machine to exhibit complex, human-like decision making and cognizance." (lines 1-3)

Complex - "AGI is yet to be achieved by any man-made machine, mainly because we have no idea how to create such technology." (lines 6-8)

Sentence purposes

Declare - "A machine exhibiting artificial general intelligence has a much deeper understanding of its surroundings as compared to a machine running on a neural network." (lines 5-6)

Imperative - "AI has yet to become true Artificial general intelligence(AGI)" (line 1)