WorksheetsThe role of syntax in language
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 8mins
What is the main objective of the syntax?
It gives the structure to each sentence.
It gives the correct meaning of the sentence.
It gives the structure to each word.
The syntax allows us to understand how children acquire their language and how they start constructing sentences.
True
False
Which are the components of grammar of a language:
The phonetics: that governs the structure of sounds.
The morphology: that governs the structure of words.
The syntax: which governs the structure of sentences.
The semantics: that governs the meanings of words and sentences
Sociolinguistics: the study of language in relation to social factors.
Do you need to know all the rules of grammar to create and to understand new sentences?
True
False
With the syntax you can create an infinite number of words.
True
False
The syntax can be described, by following methods
Statement of the correct sequence of the parts of speech.
By a series of transformational rules.
By the quantities words.
By parsing diagrams.
What is the basic sequence of the syntax of a language?
V= Verb
O= Object
S= Subject
VSO
VOS
OVS
SVO
SOV
A finite number of rules that facilitate to create a infinite numbers of sentences, these rules are called:
Morphology
Semantics
Syntax
Pragmatics
Choose the correct answers. The classification of words into parts of speech in the syntax are:
Preposition
Verb
Adjective
Noun
Pronoun
Which are the basic parts of the following sentence
THE CAT SAT ON THE MAT.
Article - Noun - Adverb - Preposition - Article - Noun
Article - Noun - Verb - Preposition - Article - Noun
Article - Object - Verb - Preposition - Article - Object
The syntax allows us to understand how children acquire their language and how they start constructing sentences.
True
False
With the syntax you can create an infinite number of words.
True
False
