This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 15 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence: "The cat slept on the mat." A) Compound-Complex. B) Simple. C) Compound. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple. 2. A rule or production 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: C) In BNF:LHS and RHS. 3. Which method is used to read an integer input from the user in Java? A) ReadInt(). B) Next(). C) NextLine(). D) NextInt(). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NextInt(). 4. Which of the following sentences uses inverted syntax? 'Seldom have I seen such beauty.' A) Normal Word Order. B) Inverted Word Order. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverted Word Order. 5. What is the value of the expression 5 % 2? A) 2.5. B) 1. C) 2. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1. 6. Which method is used to convert a string to a floating-point number in Java? A) ParseFloat(). B) ConvertToFloat(). C) ToFloat(). D) Double.parseDouble(). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Double.parseDouble(). 7. My mom ..... (decorate) our new flat. (Past continuous) A) Is decorating. B) Wasn't decorating. C) Isn't decorating. D) Was decorating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wasn't decorating. 8. Identify the correct sentence structure:'Despite the rain, we went for a walk.' A) Compound-complex. B) Simple. C) Compound. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Complex. 9. Which is the selector in this CSS?p {color:red;} A) P. B) Color. C) Red. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) P. 10. Which one of these variables has an ILLEGAL name? A) &my-Var. B) &my Var. C) $ my Var. D) $ my-Var. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) $ my-Var. 11. Comments start with a $ , and Python will render the rest of the line as a comment A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. Phil is tall, dark, and handsome. A) Complex. B) Basic. C) Loose. D) Periodic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loose. 13. Choose a word to complete the complex sentence: ..... all goes well, we will be able to have an overseas trip next year. A) Because. B) Unless. C) Provided that. D) Even if. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Provided that. 14. Used to divide distinct but related sentence components, such as clauses, in which the second elaborates on the first, or to introduce a list, quotation or speech A) Semicolon. B) Colon. C) Dash. D) Parenthesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Colon. 15. An individual feature, fact, or item. A) Detail. B) Syntax. C) Imagery. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Detail. 16. Sets the color of words in a paragraph A) H1 {color:pink;}. B) Body {color:pink;}. C) Img {color:pink;}. D) P {color:pink;}. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) P {color:pink;}. 17. What is wrong with this code? name = Daisyprint("Hello", name) A) Missing ( ) on Daisy. B) Missing '' '' on Daisy. C) Missing '' '' on name. D) Extra, after Hello. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Missing '' '' on Daisy. 18. Antithesis meaning? A) To show the difference between ideas through parallelism. B) Give direct orders to someone. C) Expressing immense emotion/ surprise. D) Repeating consonant sounds in words close together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To show the difference between ideas through parallelism. 19. Exclamatory meaning? A) To show the difference between ideas through parallelism. B) Repeating vowel sounds in words close together. C) Repeated words or phrase at the beginning of sentences that go one after the other. D) Expressing immense emotion/ surprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expressing immense emotion/ surprise. 20. What is the CORRECT way to add 1 to the $ count variable? A) $ count =+1. B) $ count++;. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $ count++;. 21. The task may not get any easier; however, you can get better. A) Imperative. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound. 22. Mention 4 types of sentence structures that represent the clauses and subordinates. A) Simple, complex, compound, compound/complex. B) Simple, subject, verb, compound. C) Subject, adverb, direct, indirect. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple, complex, compound, compound/complex. 23. What is the Subject and Verb? (in that order)Have articles about volcanoes appeared in any magazines lately? A) Articles and appeared. B) Volcanoes and have. C) Magazines and appeared. D) Articles and have. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Articles and appeared. 24. YoursThe coat is yours. = The coat is ..... A) Thou. B) Hast or Hath. C) Thee. D) Thine. E) Thy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thine. 25. Which statement is TRUE according to the sentence below?"The cat was sleeping on the table." A) If 'was sleeping' is Y, then 'the cat' is Z. B) If 'was sleeping' is X, then 'the cat' is Y. C) If 'was sleeping' is Y, then 'the cat' is X. D) If 'was sleeping' is Z, then 'the cat' is A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If 'was sleeping' is X, then 'the cat' is Y. 26. Genitive endings can be found in ..... A) Adjective. B) Verb. C) Noun. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noun. 27. More than 70 U.S. cities ..... (has/have) ..... banned Styrofoam. A) Has. B) Have. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have. 28. Used to create exponents A) """. B) #. C) %. D) **. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) **. 29. Extended BNF, designed to enhance readability for humans-no other benefit A) Leftmost Derivations. B) EBNF. C) Sentential Form. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) EBNF. 30. Anaphora meaning? A) Repeated words or phrase at the beginning of sentences that go one after the other. B) Repeating vowel sounds in words close together. C) To show the difference between ideas through parallelism. D) Repeating consonant sounds in words close together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeated words or phrase at the beginning of sentences that go one after the other. 31. What impact does the author's use of short, abrupt sentences have on the tone of the text? A) It creates a relaxed and leisurely tone. B) It establishes a tense and urgent tone. C) It suggests a tone of confusion. D) It implies a tone of indifference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It establishes a tense and urgent tone. 32. What type of sentence is the following:Although Joe ran the race, he was still energetic. A) Compound-complex. B) Compound. C) Simple. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Complex. 33. The verb "to give" is di-transitive. Robert gives Julia an apple. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. (Read this sentence) Wikipedia is making an effort to improve its accuracy by hiring an army of individuals to hunt down faulty information on its site. (The language in this sentence creates a sense of ..... ) A) Determination. B) Intelligence. C) Obedience. D) Resignation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Determination. 35. I like him because he is handsome.Because is a/an ..... A) Conjunction. B) Preposition. C) Article. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjunction. 36. Why is diction important? A) Because the word choice that a poem uses impacts how we read something or how we understand it. B) Because formal word choice makes everything sound more important. C) Because informal language is not appropriate for school. D) Because Mrs. Kuntz said so (don't pick this one, PLEASE). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because the word choice that a poem uses impacts how we read something or how we understand it. 37. Noun Phrases are strings of words whose central element is a ..... A) Subject. B) Phrase. C) Noun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noun. 38. Which sentence uses the correct word order for a question in English? A) Going you are to the party?. B) Are you going to the party?. C) To the party you are going?. D) You are going to the party?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are you going to the party?. 39. Which word means "refers to a writer's selection of words based on meaning (both denotative and connotative), specificity, tone, and audience. Also called diction, this is an essential ingredient of style" ? A) Word choice. B) Imagery. C) Grammar. D) Antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Word choice. 40. The following are major verb classes except A) Semantic verbs. B) Modal auxiliary verbs. C) Full/Lexical verbs. D) Primary verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Semantic verbs. 41. Select the sentence with a nonfinite verb. A) My little brother 'wants' to be an actor. B) She worked hard 'to pass' the test. C) The dog 'wagged' its tail to show its happiness. D) She 'opened' the door. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She worked hard 'to pass' the test. 42. A phrase or sentence that has more than one underlying structure A) Generative grammar. B) Recursion. C) Deep structure. D) Structural ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structural ambiguity. 43. What does the term, variation mean? A) No change made to something. B) It means making one thing similar to another. C) Incorporating a number of different types or elements; to modify something in order to make it unique and/or fluent. D) This term has no relevance to Language Arts class; therefore, it has no real meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incorporating a number of different types or elements; to modify something in order to make it unique and/or fluent. 44. The plane took off an hour late.off is a/an: A) Adverb. B) Preposition. C) Verb particle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb particle. 45. String firstName = Console.ReadLine();What does that? A) Nothing. B) It prints on the console on a new line. C) It prints on the console on the same line. D) It reads from the console. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It reads from the console. 46. Which sentence demonstrates a change from passive to active voice? A) Mary read the book. $\rightarrow$ The book was read by Mary. B) The book was read by Mary. $\rightarrow$ Mary read the book. C) Mary read the book. $\rightarrow$ Mary is reading the book. D) The book was read by Mary. $\rightarrow$ The book is being read by Mary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The book was read by Mary. $\rightarrow$ Mary read the book. 47. Examples of forms of modal auxiliary verbs (in order):nonnegative, uncontracted negative, contracted negative A) Could, couldn't, could not. B) Mustn't, must, must not. C) Should, should not, shouldn't. D) Might not, might, mightn't. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Should, should not, shouldn't. 48. What should you do if you encounter a syntax error while coding? A) Ignore the error and continue coding. B) Check your code for common mistakes like misspellings or incorrect punctuation. C) Delete all your code and start over. D) Restart your computer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Check your code for common mistakes like misspellings or incorrect punctuation. 49. Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words" ? A) Point of view. B) Speaker. C) Tone. D) Complex attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 50. Decide what the tone of the following sentence is:The apple cider spilled to the kitchen floor, leaving a thick, sticky mess. A) Postive. B) Negative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 51. The manner in which a writer puts a sentence together A) Tone. B) Syntax. C) Connotation. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Syntax. 52. $_{Pass the following sentence to passive voice.}$He wrote a book A) The book was written by him. B) The book was been written by she. C) The book is wrote by he. D) The book was written by her. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The book was written by him. 53. Which operator is used to concatenate two arrays in Java? A) +. B) &. C) Arrays.concat(). D) ,. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arrays.concat(). 54. Fill the blank:In the basis case, the two immediate constituents of NP are: ..... and ..... A) ART/AP. B) DET/NOM. C) AP/N. D) ART/N. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) DET/NOM. 55. 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)Careful owners wash their cars. A) V, DET, N, A, N. B) A, N, V, DET, A. C) A, N, V, DET, N. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A, N, V, DET, N. 56. I'm going to the store to get some cheese after I clean my house; my house is a dismal mess. A) Compound-complex. B) Sentence fragment. C) Run-on. D) Compound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound-complex. 57. What is the correct form of the sentence in past continuous tense? A) They was playing in the garden. B) They were playing in the garden. C) They were played in the garden. D) They played in the garden. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They were playing in the garden. 58. If you combine the words "the" and "book" to form the phrase "the book, " which operation are you using? A) Economy. B) Merge. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Merge. 59. The following are criteria for adjectives: A) Attributiveimperativepremodification (very)comparison. B) Attributive, indicative, premodification (very), superlative. C) Central, predicative, premodification (very), comparison. D) Attributive, predicative, premodification (very), comparison. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Attributive, predicative, premodification (very), comparison. 60. What symbol is used for multiplication in Python coding? A) X. B) +. C) #. D) *. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) *. ← 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