Syntax Quiz

Syntax is the component of grammar that deals with...

• How words can be heard through writing

• How words and phrases are combined into larger phrases

• How phrases change into larger phrases

If some string of words does not form a sentence, we call it...

• Ungrammatical

• Nom grammatical

• Doesn't have correct grammar

When a sentence is grammatical, we say that it is....

• Syntactically ill-formed

• Syntactically good formed

• Syntactically well-formed

The following are symbols used in syntactic analysis, except....

• Art

• Tr

• PP

Syntactic structure has two types, it is...

• Dependency-based and Alignment-based

• Constituency-based and Dependency-based

• Constituency-based and Openess-based

Transformational of grammar rules is...

• a rule of grammar that relates two phrase markers in the course of a derivation from the deep to the surface syntactic representation of a sentence, as by reordering, inserting, or deleting elements

• When two singular subjects are connected by or, use a singular verb. The same is true for either/or and neither/nor

• a principle in logic establishing the conditions under which one statement can be derived or validly deduced from one or more other statements especially in

The third symbol is in the form of curly brackets { }, that indicate...

• A phrase when it has multiple or ambiguous meaning

• Two letters that must be enclosed when they have similarities

• that only one of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected

Which words in this sentence is an article?

"The cat catched a mouse"

• The

• Catched

• Cat