Form & Function

​FORM denotes how something looks: its shape or appearance, and what its structure is. For example in its form,  the old man is an NP, or that the old man bought a newspaper is a finite clause. Here only its form is being identified. We can also look at constituents ( that is, phrases and clauses within a sentence) from another angle. We can examine the FUNCTIONs which they perform in the larger structures which contain them. 

View this video tutorial BUT keep the following in mind! It was made when using another book, and the abbreviations differ slightly to Estling's UGE abbreviations.