Syntax Quiz Eng 1A

1. What is the correct definition of syntax?

• the branch of linguistic that examines words in the sentences

• the branch of linguistics that examines the sentence structure of English Language

• the branch of linguistics that studies sentence structure

Noam Chomsky is the proponent of ______________.

• Syntax

• Generative grammar

• Grammar

What do you call the group of words that functions together as a unit?

• Phrase

• Constituent

• Grammatical category

The rules to be followed to generate a tree is called _________.

• Phrase Structure Rules

• Tree Diagram

• Constituency

Which of the following phrase structure rules is not right?

• VP---> V (NP) (PP) (Adv)

• PP--> Prep (NP)

• TP ---> NP (Aux) VP

• CP --> C S

(Phrase Structure Rule)

the big box of crayons

(Grammatical Category)

Her blue-eyed Persian cat.

(Grammatical Category)

I haven't seen him before.

(Provide the phrase structure rule of the VP in the sentence)

The puppy found the child.

Provide the phrase structure rule of the NP in the sentence.

A frightened passenger landed the crippled airliner.