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surface structure Sentence structures that we produce, see or hear, as opposed to the deep structures from which they are argued to be derived.
Example:Active and passive versions of sentences (The dog chased the cat and The cat was chased by the dog are said to be different surface forms of the same deep structure.
Topics: Planning, General linguistic terms