Meaning Of The Word Surface structure

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surface structure in American English
in transformational grammar, the formal structure of a sentence as it actually occurs in speech and as distinguished from the abstract, underlying deep structure
noun: a structural representation of the final syntactic form of a sentence, as it exists after the transformational component has modified a deep structure

surface structure in British English
noun: a representation of a string of words or morphemes as they occur in a sentence, together with labels and brackets that represent syntactic structure

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