Syntax error near unexpected token 'done'

As it stands, your code is equivalent to:

for var in bent bound bled bred brought built burned burnt bought caught clung \          crept dealt dug dived dreamed dreamt fed felt fought found fled flung \          ground hung heard held kept knelt laid led leaped leapt learned learnt \          left lent lighted lost made meant met misspelled misspelt mowed mown \          paid pled proved proven sawed sawn said sought sold sent sewed sewn \          shaved shaven shone shoed shod shot showed sat slept slid slung sowed \          sown sped spent silted spilt spun sprung stood stuck stung struck \          strung swept swelled swollen swung taught told thought thrived \          understood upheld waved woven wept wound won withheld withstood wrung do    cd ~    cd Documents/UPenn/'Senior Year'/'Spring 2011'/Thesis/Results/    echo "$var"    NUMLINE=0    cat 'foradam.txt' | while IFS=$'\t' read -r word pos other; do        if [ "$word" = '#' ] || [ "$word" = Number ] || [ "$word" = CHI ]; then            NUMLINE=`expr $NUMLINE + 1`            echo "error 1"            echo "$word"            echo "$NUMLINE"            if [ "$word" = $var ] && [ "$pos" = VVN ];then                 sed -i '$NUMLINE' d Brown_Adam_CIVForms.txt                echo "error 4"                echo "$word"                echo "$NUMLINE"            else                echo "nothing on this line"                echo "$word"                echo "$NUMLINE"            fi        fi # This fi is missing in your code!!!    donedone

There is a 'fi' missing, which makes the 'done' unexpected. An alternative diagnosis is that the nested 'if' should actually be an 'elif':

for var in bent bound bled bred brought built burned burnt bought caught clung \          crept dealt dug dived dreamed dreamt fed felt fought found fled flung \          ground hung heard held kept knelt laid led leaped leapt learned learnt \          left lent lighted lost made meant met misspelled misspelt mowed mown \          paid pled proved proven sawed sawn said sought sold sent sewed sewn \          shaved shaven shone shoed shod shot showed sat slept slid slung sowed \          sown sped spent silted spilt spun sprung stood stuck stung struck \          strung swept swelled swollen swung taught told thought thrived \          understood upheld waved woven wept wound won withheld withstood wrung do    cd ~    cd Documents/UPenn/'Senior Year'/'Spring 2011'/Thesis/Results/    echo "$var"    NUMLINE=0    cat 'foradam.txt' | while IFS=$'\t' read -r word pos other; do        if [ "$word" = '#' ] || [ "$word" = Number ] || [ "$word" = CHI ]; then            NUMLINE=`expr $NUMLINE + 1`            echo "error 1"            echo "$word"            echo "$NUMLINE"        elif [ "$word" = $var ] && [ "$pos" = VVN ]; then             sed -i '$NUMLINE' d Brown_Adam_CIVForms.txt            echo "error 4"            echo "$word"            echo "$NUMLINE"        else            echo "nothing on this line"            echo "$word"            echo "$NUMLINE"        fi    donedone

Try putting the while loop in a subshell. Also, one of your if statements is missing an elif

cat 'foradam.txt' | ( while IFS=$'\t' read -r word pos other; do    if [ "$word" = '#' ] || [ "$word" = Number ] || [ "$word" = CHI ]; then        ...    elif [ "$word" = $var ] && [ "$pos" = VVN ]; then         ...    else        ...    fidone )

I looked at a for/done example and they showed it as:

#!/bin/bashfor i in $( ls ); do    echo item: $idone

That is, only one done at the end. You have two.