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SPOCA analysis and what it can show

Task B - Our analysis (line 3)

Explanation of third line of Nursery Rhyme

S

P

A

A

A

He

wasn't

there

again

today.

This sentence effectively repeats in a different grammatical form the semantic oddity of the first sentence'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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