 Welcome back. Here is another sentence that I'm going to analyse for you, applying the principles of the comprehensive grammar of the English language, thus another example of a traditional syntactic analysis. In this video, I will analyse the sentence the boss thoroughly questioned the senior accountant about last month's losses. And as usual, I will first of all analyse the word classes, so I will perform a categorical analysis. Then we will look at the phrasal constituents, a constituent analysis if you wish. We will look at the clauses that are part of this sentence and will finally define the sentence type. So let us assign the word classes first. The sentence contains a number of nouns, boss, month, losses. And note that we analyse senior accountant not as two separate nouns, but as a compound noun with accountant as its head. The nouns are preceded by determiners. We have two occurrences of the determiner, the, and in last months, last is a numeral preceding month. So another type of determiner. Note that last month's itself functions as a determiner to losses. We'll come back to this. Our sentence has one verb, questioned, and it contains the adverb thoroughly and a preposition about. Let us now group these simple categories into constituents and let us perform a phrasal analysis. Note that I already marked the lexical or open class categories in special colours. They can all be heads of particular phrases. The nouns, boss, senior accountant and month are the heads of noun phrases where last month in the genitive form is a pre-modifier to the head losses. Thus it is nested within the higher MP where losses is the head. The whole noun phrase last month's losses itself is the post-modifier of the preposition about and is thus a prepositional phrase. Next, thoroughly, is the head of a simple adverb phrase which is neither pre nor post-modified. And last but not least, we have a verb phrase with questioned as the head, the adverb phrase as the pre-modifier and a noun phrase and a prepositional phrase as post-modifiers. So much for the phrasal analysis. Let's now look at the clausal structure which is really simple here. As far as the clausal analysis is concerned, we only have one clause namely the entire sentence which is identical with the clause. So here is the result. A simple declarative sentence with several nested phrasal categories. That's it. Well, and if you want to download the board content that I've just developed, create your free VLC account unless you already have one. Log in to the VLC and visit the e-lecture library where you have access to all videos and their board content in a freely accessible PDF format. Thank you very much and see you again.