This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 12 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In the sentence "I like apples, " which principle is being followed by omitting "do" ? A) Economy. B) Merge. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Economy. 2. Identifiers can start with a number. True or False? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 3. A writer's attitude toward the subject being discussed A) Tone. B) Denotation. C) Diction. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 4. Which sentence demonstrates varied syntax? A) She went to the store, bought milk, and returned home. B) She went to the store. She bought milk. She returned home. C) She went to the store; she bought milk; she returned home. D) She went to the store and bought milk, then she returned home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She went to the store, bought milk, and returned home. 5. Which sentence is an example of passive voice? A) The cat is chasing the mouse. B) The cat chased the mouse. C) The mouse is being chased by the cat. D) The mouse was chased by the cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The mouse was chased by the cat. 6. Which example is a fragment? A) This is a wonderful movie. B) People talked. C) My dog is cute, his name is George. D) My sister's cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) My sister's cat. 7. True or False:A verb is who/what the sentence is about? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Which of the following sentences uses inverted syntax? In the garden, the flowers bloomed. The flowers bloomed in the garden. Blooming in the garden, the flowers. A) D. B) C. C) B. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C. 9. Which of the following is not a verb phrase structure rule? A) VP $\rightarrow$ V (AdvP). B) VP $\rightarrow$ (AdvP+) V (NP ) (NP) (AdvP+) (PP+) (AdvP+). C) VP $\rightarrow$ (AdvP+) V (NP) (NP) (AdvP+). D) VP $\rightarrow$ (V) NP (NP) (AP+). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) VP $\rightarrow$ (V) NP (NP) (AP+). 10. Which sentence demonstrates inverted syntax? 'Hardly ever does he speak in class.' A) Normal Word Order. B) Inverted Word Order. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverted Word Order. 11. Which sentence uses correct syntax? A) Running quickly the dog caught the ball. B) The dog running quickly caught the ball. C) The dog caught the ball running quickly. D) Quickly running the dog caught the ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dog running quickly caught the ball. 12. This book will change your life. / Your life ..... by this book. A) Will be changing. B) Will be changed. C) Will have been changed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will be changed. 13. Which one is NOT a small set of words which perform the same function as the articles? A) Demonstratives:this, that, these, those. B) Possessives:my, your. her . C) Pronoun:he, she . D) Certain Quantifiers:some, any, no, each . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pronoun:he, she . 14. ::= | ::= 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9What are the Non-Terminals in above grammar? A) . B) . C) 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9. D) Both . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both . 15. Generative grammar is A) To have infinite set of rules to creater finite sentences. B) To have finite set of rules to creater infinite sentences. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To have finite set of rules to creater infinite sentences. 16. Identify the syntax in the following sentence:'The cat sat on the mat.' A) The choice of the word 'cat'. B) The use of the word 'sat'. C) The structure of the sentence. D) The rhyme of 'cat' and 'mat'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The structure of the sentence. 17. She will not recognize us. / We ..... by her. A) Will not recognize. B) Will not being recognized. C) Will not be recognized. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will not be recognized. 18. What are the basic determiners? A) The Nominal (NOM). B) The Modal (MOD). C) The Nouns (N). D) The Articles (ART). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Articles (ART). 19. Multa passus bello A) Many suffering people went to war. B) Having suffered many things in war. C) Many men suffered for war. D) Passing through many wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having suffered many things in war. 20. What a sunny day! A) Declarative. B) Interrogative. C) Imperative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exclamatory. 21. What is the ultimate goal of the Minimalist Program in linguistic theory? A) To increase the number of linguistic rules for better understanding. B) To uncover the most economical and universal principles that underlie human language. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To uncover the most economical and universal principles that underlie human language. 22. What is generative grammar? A) Defines the syntactic structures of a language. B) Two different events that can be expressed in the same structure form. C) Process of repeating any number of times. D) Set of logical rules formulated to be capable in generating the infinite number of possible sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Set of logical rules formulated to be capable in generating the infinite number of possible sentences. 23. What does an 'invalid syntax' error indicate when using a semicolon instead of a comma? A) The semicolon is correctly placed. B) The code is missing a semicolon. C) The code is completely correct. D) The syntax doesn't make sense to the interpreter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The syntax doesn't make sense to the interpreter. 24. Speeds up the pace of a sentence. A) Ellipsis. B) Asyndeton. C) Polysendeton. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Asyndeton. 25. Which symbol for variables in PHP? A) &. B) Var(). C) $. D) Type VarName. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $. 26. What special type of sentence is the following:Down that dark path sits the haunted house. A) Inverted. B) Interrogative. C) Chiasmus. D) Cumulative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inverted. 27. Who developed the Minimalist Program? A) Ferdinand de Saussure. B) Noam Chomsky. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noam Chomsky. 28. Which of the following phrase structure rules is not right? A) TP $\rightarrow$ NP (Aux) VP. B) PP$\rightarrow$ Prep (NP). C) CP $\rightarrow$ C S. D) VP$\rightarrow$ V (NP) (PP) (Adv). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CP $\rightarrow$ C S. 29. What is recursion? A) Process of repeting any number of times. B) Putting together or arrangement. C) Word formation. D) Phrases, clause and sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Process of repeting any number of times. 30. Is this statement a sentence or a fragment?Did tell you about the resource at the Seventh Generation Fund Site? A) Sentence. B) Fragment. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesSyntax Quiz 1Syntax Quiz 2Syntax Quiz 3Syntax Quiz 4Syntax Quiz 5Syntax Quiz 6Syntax Quiz 7Syntax Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books