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 Definition

Structural grammar is characterized by a top-down process of analysis. A sentence is seen as a constituent structure. All the components of the sentences are its constituents. A sentence can be cut into sections. Each section is its immediate constituent. Then each section can be further cut into constituents. This on-going cutting is termed immediate constituent analysis. 

 Examples:

Old men and women: old | men and women, old || men | and women

The ||| little || girl | speaks || French. 

 Advantages: In this way, sentence structure is analyzed not only horizontally but also vertically. In other words, IC analysis can account for the linearity and the hierarchy of sentence structure. It can analyze some ambiguities.