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<p>Let the adverb <i>suddenly</i> be my component C. Combined with
the construction <i>John screamed</i>, my formula might look
something like:</p>
<p>{Adv} NP {Adv} VP {Adv}</p>
<p>Is this a misleading use of curly brackets (referring to Ian
Joo's suggestion, which I remember having seen in the early days
of transformationalism) ? Or is there a more adequate
representation?<br>
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