This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. It is a diagram that linguists use to structurally represent what's going on in sentences. A) Three diagram. B) Phrase diagram. C) Phrase structure diagram. D) Tree diagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tree diagram. 2. 10$^{2 }$= 100Which of the following is used in Python to calculate ten squared? A) 10 ** 2. B) 10 ** 10. C) 10 % 2. D) 10 * 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10 ** 2. 3. Chip was still deflated that he'd allowed himself to get duped, but he put his arm around me as we started walking back to the truck. A) Compound-complex sentence. B) Complex sentence. C) Compound sentence. D) Run-on. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound-complex sentence. 4. Consists of some mixture of tokens, lexemes, and references to other abstractions A) In BNF:left-hand side. B) In BNF:right-hand side. C) In BNF:LHS and RHS. D) Nonterminal. E) Terminal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In BNF:right-hand side. 5. Robert Frost was the first poet to speak at the inauguration of a president, reciting from memory "The Gift Outright, " when the glare of the sun prevented him from reading "Dedication, " a poem he had written specially for the occasion. This caused him to recite it with a more colloquial and less emphatic scansion.Which American president's inaugural was it? A) Abraham Lincoln. B) George Bush. C) John F. Kennedy. D) Lyndon B. Johnson. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) John F. Kennedy. 6. Choose the correct definition of a dependent clause. A) A clause that can stand alone as a sentence. B) A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence. C) A clause that contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought. D) A clause that contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A clause that contains a subject and a verb but does not express a complete thought. 7. Which word means "to make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone" ? A) Convey. B) Analyze. C) Form. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convey. 8. Because I was out of milk A) Dependent clause. B) Independent clause. C) Parallelism. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dependent clause. 9. Diction is the literary term that means A) The connections we have with words. B) The common way of speaking with friends. C) The definition of words. D) An author's choice of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An author's choice of words. 10. Participial phrases consist of a participle along with all of its: A) Conjunction. B) Modifiers and Complements. C) Determiners. D) Modifiers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Modifiers and Complements. 11. How many KB in 3MB? A) 3, 000KB. B) 0.3KB. C) 3, 000, 000KB. D) 3, 000, 000, 000KB. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3, 000KB. 12. The sun lit up the wall; I shielded my eyes from the glare. A) Dash. B) Semicolon. C) Colon. D) Period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semicolon. 13. Combine the following sentences for clarity: "The car was fast. It won the race." A) The car was fast, and it won the race. B) The car was fast; it won the race. C) The car was fast, it won the race. D) The car was fast and won the race. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The car was fast, and it won the race. 14. What role does syntax play in creating suspense in a story? A) Long, descriptive sentences build suspense by delaying information. B) Short, abrupt sentences increase tension and urgency. C) Syntax has no role in creating suspense. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 15. INVERTED SYNTAX means that ..... A) Nothing in the sentence is right side up. B) The predicate is before the subject. C) The subject is not given. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The predicate is before the subject. 16. Which word should go in the blank to complete the sentence correctly? She speaks English ..... A) Very. B) Well. C) Fine. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well. 17. Which of the following sentences uses inverted syntax? The dog barked loudly. Loudly barked the dog. Barked the dog loudly. The loudly dog barked. A) Barked the dog loudly. B) Loudly barked the dog. C) The dog barked loudly. D) The loudly dog barked. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loudly barked the dog. 18. Which of the following is true about predictive parsing? A) It uses a stack to keep track of symbols during parsing. B) It relies on a parsing table that is constructed from the grammar's First() and Follow() sets. C) It requires backtracking to handle ambiguous grammars. D) It is a bottom-up parsing technique that generates parse trees from leaves to root. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It relies on a parsing table that is constructed from the grammar's First() and Follow() sets. 19. Syntax in computer programming means the rules that control the structure of the symbols, punctuation, and words of a programming language. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. In literary analysis, how does diction contribute to a text? A) It determines the plot. B) It sets the tone and mood. C) It defines the characters. D) It outlines the theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It sets the tone and mood. 21. He was the developer of Java Language. A) James Gosling. B) Jackie Gosling. C) James Gowsling. D) Jackie Gosling. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James Gosling. 22. I can't forgive you until you apologize for your actions. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex. 23. Read the following sentence:The man stretched slowly, then continued his sluggish walk down the street. How would the meaning of the sentence change if the author used the word "unhurried" instead of the word "sluggish" ? A) The man would seem animal-like. B) The man wold seem more talented. C) The man would seem funnier. D) The man would seem less lazy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The man would seem less lazy. 24. I read the news that he is going to get married.The direct object of the verb read is: A) The news. B) That he is going to get married. C) He is going to get married. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The news. 25. Classify each word in the sentence according to the categories:N (noun), V (verb), A (adjective), P (preposition), DET for (determiner), PRN (pronoun), AUX (auxiliary)Europeans peopled America. A) N, V, N. B) PRN, N, V. C) N, V, A. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) N, V, N. 26. They broke up the table for firewood. / The table ..... up for firewood. A) Broke. B) Had broken. C) Was broken. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Was broken. 27. Choose the sentence with inverted syntax:The cat meowed softly. Softly meowed the cat. The softly cat meowed. A) The softly cat meowed. B) The cat meowed softly. C) Meowed softly the cat. D) Softly meowed the cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Softly meowed the cat. 28. She rides her bike every Sunday. "bike" is- A) The subject. B) An adverb. C) An object. D) A verb. E) An adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An object. 29. What is the best definition of an author's style? A) The type of nouns the author uses. B) A formal way of using language. C) His or her special way of using words. D) A story the author tells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His or her special way of using words. 30. Choose a word to complete the complex sentence: ..... you finish your task, move on to the next on. A) Until. B) As soon as. C) Since. D) Although. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) As soon as. 31. How would a reader BEST describe the story's MOOD in this line from "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" ? "Mr. John Philip Johnson shut his front door behind him and went down his front steps into the bright morning with a feeling that all was well with the world on this best of days." A) Cheerful. B) Serious. C) Humorous. D) Mocking. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cheerful. 32. Connects two independent parts of a sentence A) Hyphen. B) Dash. C) Semicolon. D) Colon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semicolon. 33. What is the name of the environment in Python that write your programs and then test them out? A) IDLE. B) Window. C) CLI. D) Shell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IDLE. 34. Deep structure sentence must consists of ..... A) Subject+verb+object+ prepositional phrases. B) Subject+verb+object. C) Subject+verb. D) Noun phrase+verb+noun phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noun phrase+verb+noun phrase. 35. Select the answer choise that identifies the noun in the sentence:To seize a foreign embassy and its inhabitants is fragnant disregard for diplomatic neutrality. A) Its. B) Neutrality. C) Seize. D) Fragrant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Neutrality. 36. Which of the following sentences contains a modal idiom? A) The class is to take place in the morning. B) You mustn't say that. C) Shall we go?. D) Would you be there?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The class is to take place in the morning. 37. What special type of sentence is the following: "I came; I saw; I conquered." A) Antithesis. B) Triadic. C) Inverted. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triadic. 38. What grammatical element is contained in the following sentence? The dog is hiding under the porch. A) Prepositional phrase. B) Infinitive phrase. C) Gerund phrase. D) Dependent clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prepositional phrase. 39. Below are the distributional criteria for nouns, except ..... A) Nouns can be preceded by words such as the, a, this/these, that/those, etc. B) Nouns can also be preceded by adjectives. C) Nouns denote people, animals, things or places. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nouns denote people, animals, things or places. 40. An appositive or noun phrase A) Must be a complete sentence. B) Renames or defines another noun. C) Doesn't need to be enclosed with commas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renames or defines another noun. 41. TRUE or FALSE:Any expression that occupies the same position in NP structure as an article counts as a determiner. A) A. TRUE. B) B. FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. TRUE. 42. What is the correct form of the sentence in simple future tense? A) She going to the store. B) She go to the store. C) She will go to the store. D) She will goes to the store. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She will go to the store. 43. What is the word (command) used to display numbers and text on the screen? A) Print. B) Input. C) Output. D) Command. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Print. 44. The third symbol is in the form of curly brackets { }, that indicate ..... A) A phrase when it has multiple or ambiguous meaning. B) Two letters that must be enclosed when they have similarities. C) That only one of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That only one of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected. 45. EX:And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.-Abraham Lincoln A) Epistrophe. B) Anadiplosis. C) Epanalepsis. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. 46. "be" and "have" are ..... A) The dummy auxiliary do. B) Aspectual auxiliaries. C) Modal auxiliaries. D) The passive auxiliary be. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aspectual auxiliaries. 47. In the sentence, "The fat man ate, " which part is the verb? A) Ate. B) The fat man. C) Ate food. D) Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ate. 48. Every line of code that runs in C# must be inside a class. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. Which type of loop is suitable when the number of iterations is known? A) For loop. B) Nested loop. C) Do-while loop. D) While loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For loop. 50. When you have an error in your code what is the term to summarise finding and fixing that error? A) Syntax finder. B) Error finder. C) Debugging. D) Error checking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Debugging. 51. $_{Pass the following sentence to passive voice.}$Mary orders the drinks. A) The drinks was ordered by she. B) The drinks were ordered by her. C) The drinks is ordered by her. D) The drinks are ordered by her. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The drinks are ordered by her. 52. What will be the output?name = 'Fred'print (name) A) 'Fred'. B) Name. C) Fred. D) (name). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fred. 53. What movies are showing this weekend? A) Interrogative. B) Declarative. C) Imperative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interrogative. 54. Select the correct order to create a meaningful sentence: A) Delicious / cake / baked / my / mother / yesterday. B) Baked / my / mother / delicious / cake / yesterday. C) My / mother / baked / delicious / cake / yesterday. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My / mother / baked / delicious / cake / yesterday. 55. Which of the following is a correct example of subject-verb agreement? A) The team has win. B) The team is winning. C) The team are winning. D) The team were winning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The team is winning. 56. What is a common limitation of top-down parsers? A) They cannot handle left-recursive grammars. B) They are slower than bottom-up parsers. C) They are unable to build parse trees. D) They require a large number of lookahead tokens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They cannot handle left-recursive grammars. 57. Which of the following Python code is correct? A) Age = input ("What is your age? "). B) Age=input ("What is your age? "). C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Age = input ("What is your age? "). 58. Which is the correct PHP tag? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) . 59. "Someone is going to have to do it" is an example of A) Modal idioms. B) Catenative verb constructions. C) Marginal modal. D) Semi-auxiliaries in a sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Semi-auxiliaries in a sequence. 60. Subject + Verb + Object A) Periodic. B) Basic. C) Cumulative. D) Loose. 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