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 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We know nothing of one another, nothing, Smiley mused. However closely we live together, at whatever time of day or night sound the deepest thoughts in one another, we know nothing. A) Epistrophe. B) Epanalepsis. C) Anadiplosis. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epanalepsis. 2. The ..... can only act as main verbs. A) Semantic verbs. B) Full/Lexical verbs. C) Modal auxiliary verbs. D) Primary verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Full/Lexical verbs. 3. Transform the following complex sentence into a compound sentence: "Because it was raining, we stayed inside." A) It was raining, so we stayed inside. B) It was raining, we stayed inside. C) It was raining; we stayed inside. D) We stayed inside because it was raining. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was raining, so we stayed inside. 4. Her silence worries me. / I ..... her silence A) Am worrying about. B) Am worried about. C) Have worried about. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Am worried about. 5. Identify the type of phrase in bracketsWe [met Paul] last week A) Adjective phrase. B) Verb phrase. C) Noun phrase. D) Adverb phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verb phrase. 6. What is the correct pronoun to complete the sentence? ..... is my best friend. A) Him. B) He's. C) He. D) His. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He. 7. Below is not non-finite verb forms ..... A) To-infinitive. B) Bare infinitive. C) The past participle form. D) The past tense form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The past tense form. 8. The rules to be followed to generate a tree is called ..... A) Phrase Structure Rules. B) Tree Diagram. C) Constituency. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phrase Structure Rules. 9. What is the correct form of the sentence in future continuous tense? A) We will watching TV later. B) We will be watch TV later. C) We will be watching TV later. D) We will watch TV later. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We will be watching TV later. 10. In shift-reduce parsing, what does the 'shift' operation do? A) It pushes the next input token onto the stack. B) It reduces a sequence of symbols on the stack to a non-terminal symbol. C) It replaces a non-terminal symbol on the stack with a production rule. D) It moves the top symbol of the stack to the input buffer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It pushes the next input token onto the stack. 11. Which of the following sentences is an example of syntax rewriting? A) The cat sat on the mat. $\rightarrow$ The dog sat on the mat. B) The cat sat on the mat. $\rightarrow$ The cat sat on the rug. C) The cat sat on the mat. $\rightarrow$ The mat was sat on by the cat. D) The cat sat on the mat. $\rightarrow$ The cat is sitting on the mat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The cat sat on the mat. $\rightarrow$ The mat was sat on by the cat. 12. Which word choice in the sentence "The gentle breeze whispered through the trees" most contributes to the peaceful mood? A) Whispered. B) Trees. C) Breeze. D) Through. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Whispered. 13. Identify the sentence with inverted syntax:The rain fell gently. Gently fell the rain. The rain gently fell. A) Fell gently the rain. B) Gently fell the rain. C) The rain fell gently. D) The rain gently fell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gently fell the rain. 14. Take a specific part of structure, like a branch of the tree away and attach it to a different part are called? A) Syntactic symbols. B) Transformational rules. C) Syntactic structures. D) Tree diagrams. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Transformational rules. 15. Noam Chomsky is the proponent of ..... A) Syntax. B) Generative grammar. C) Grammar. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Generative grammar. 16. The young cub and its mother walked across the road. A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 17. Danny closed the door quietly. "quietly" is- A) An adverb. B) A verb. C) An object. D) The subject. E) An adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An adverb. 18. Integers are ..... and floats are ..... A) Whole numbers and exponents. B) Powers and fractions. C) Fractions and whole numbers. D) Whole numbers and decimal numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Whole numbers and decimal numbers. 19. The following are symbols used in syntactic analysis, except ..... A) Art. B) Tr. C) PP. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tr. 20. Is syntax vary between nations? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 21. Once of the basic rules of syntax said that all sentences require a subject and a verb. However, imperative sentences (commands) do not need to include their subject because it's assumed to be the person the sentence is directed at. A) False. B) True. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 22. Contain a single subject and verb A) Compound-complex. B) Complex. C) Simple. D) Compound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple. 23. I was playing basketball an hour ago A) Future progressive. B) Past progressive. C) Present progressive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Past progressive. 24. A declarative sentence ends with A) A question mark?. B) A period. C) A comma,. D) An exclamation point!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A period. 25. Syntax helps what? A) Shows. B) Enlightens. C) Highlights. D) Demonstrates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Highlights. 26. Which of the following sentences uses inverted syntax? The car raced down the street. Down the street, the car raced. Raced down the street, the car. A) Raced the down street, car the. B) The car down raced the street. C) Down the street, the car raced. D) The street down raced the car. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Down the street, the car raced. 27. Which phase of a compiler is responsible for converting source code into tokens? A) Code Generation. B) Semantic Analysis. C) Lexical analysis. D) Syntax analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lexical analysis. 28. Identify the sentence with inverted syntax:The wind howled in the night. Howling in the night, the wind. In the night, the wind howled. A) Howled the wind in the night. B) The night howled in the wind. C) The wind in the night howled. D) Howling in the night, the wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Howling in the night, the wind. 29. Syntax can best be defined as ..... A) Sentence structure. B) How we build argument. C) Rhetorical question. D) Word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sentence structure. 30. Formal language-genmeration mechanisms used to describe syntax of programming languages A) Context-Free Grammars. B) Grammar. C) Metalanguage. D) Backus-Naur Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grammar. ← 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