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attachment >of prepositional phrases. A "preposition" is a word like 'to', 'from', >'of' or 'by'. A "prepositional phrase" is any phrase that contains >a preposition. "Attachment" just means how this phrase relates to >the rest of the sentence. > >An example: > > "Have you learnt the distinctions on ambiguity from the book > on the table by Bander and Grinder on language in NLP" > >is an incredibly ambiguous sentence structure, and requires LOTS of >unconscious processing before the most well-formed deep structure is >chosen. It contains 6 different prepositional phrases, and has 6 squared >= 36 different possible attachment sequences, which means 36 different >deep structures must be represented. This would be an extremely useful >type of structure to include in a trance induction. A hand-written sign on the wall of one of my hospital's outpatient registration areas: "We fill out the insurance forms, NOT the patient."