This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 16 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the main stucture of a sentence? A) AP + NP. B) NP + VP. C) AP + VP. D) PP + NP. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) NP + VP. 2. Prepositional phrases can be daughters of ..... A) Noun phrases. B) Verb phrases. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 3. Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. A) Voice. B) Diction. C) Syntax. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 4. Which operator is used to check if two values are not equal in Java? A) ==. B) !=. C) <>. D) =. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) !=. 5. Last night the boys ..... jumping on their bed. A) Were. B) Is. C) Was. D) Are. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 6. The common sentence structure in English is A) Subject-verb-object. B) Object-verb-subject. C) Subject-subject-verb. D) Verb-object-subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject-verb-object. 7. Which punctuation mark is used to connect two independent clauses? A) Hyphen. B) Colon. C) Semicolon. D) Dash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semicolon. 8. Identify the adjunct in the following sentence:The blonde art student A) Student. B) The. C) Art. D) Blonde. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blonde. 9. If a sentence is missing a subject or a verb it is called a ..... ? A) Comma Splice. B) Fragment. C) Run-on sentence. D) Conjunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. 10. YourIt is your coat. = 'Tis ..... coat. A) Thou. B) Thine. C) Hast or Hath. D) Thee. E) Thy. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Thy. 11. Dum conderet urbem A) Until he could establish a city. B) While he found the city. C) When he cordoned the city. D) Unfund the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Until he could establish a city. 12. Syntax is the component of grammar that deals with ..... A) How words can be heard through writing. B) How words and phrases are combined into larger phrases. C) How phrases change into larger phrases. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How words and phrases are combined into larger phrases. 13. What is the purpose of Recognizer? A) Generating inputs. B) Accept good strings. C) Perform Validity of a Input. D) Perform Validation of a Input. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perform Validation of a Input. 14. Identify the complement in the following sentence:The blonde art student A) The. B) Art. C) Blonde. D) Student. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Art. 15. What can a variable not start with? A) A special character. B) A capital letter. C) A number. D) A lower case letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A number. 16. My mother {work} in a that company?What type of speech is {work} A) Adjective. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verb. 17. A specific order of symbol replacement in senential forms-the replaced nonterminal is always the left-most non-terminal in the previous sentential form A) Leftmost Derivations. B) Ambiguity. C) EBNF. D) Sentential Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leftmost Derivations. 18. Which of the following is not a noun phrase structure rule? A) NP= (AdjP) N (PP+). B) NP= (AdjP) N (PP). C) NP= V (N) (Adv) PP. D) NP= (D) N (AdjP). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NP= V (N) (Adv) PP. 19. The arrangement of words and order of grammatical elements in a sentence A) Dialogue. B) Language. C) Syntax. D) Dialect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntax. 20. Decide what the tone of the following sentence is:The character can be seen riding a bike under the bright summer sun. A) Positive. B) Negative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive. 21. Combine the following sentences for clarity: "The cake was delicious. Everyone wanted a second piece." A) The cake was delicious, and everyone wanted a second piece. B) The cake was delicious; everyone wanted a second piece. C) The cake was delicious, everyone wanted a second piece. D) The cake was delicious and everyone wanted a second piece. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The cake was delicious, and everyone wanted a second piece. 22. Juno fertur coluisse A) Juno is cultured to have said. B) Juno's fate was to cherish. C) Juno is said to have cherished. D) Juno's colony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juno is said to have cherished. 23. There are ..... groups of auxiliaries. A) 3. B) 4. C) 5. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4. 24. Macbeth was covered in blood, and he brought the bloody daggers to his wife. A) Compound. B) Complex. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound. 25. What is the answer to print (16//5)? A) 165. B) 3. C) 1. D) 21. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 26. What type of sentence is the following:Knowledge of grammar is essential to successful writing. A) Interrogative. B) Exclamatory. C) Imperative. D) Declarative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Declarative. 27. The form of the verb other than the third person singular is often referred to as ..... A) The finite verb. B) The base form. C) The lexical verbs. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The base form. 28. Contains an independent clause and two or more dependent clauses. A) Simple. B) Compound-complex. C) Complex. D) Compound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Complex. 29. Diction depends on all but one of these factors. A) The word has to be right and accurate. B) Words should be appropriate to the context. C) The words should be strong and emotional. D) The choice of words should be understood easily. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The words should be strong and emotional. 30. What does == mean? A) Assign a value to a variable. B) Nothing, it's an error caused by typing == instead of =. C) Check that the value on the right of the == matches the value on the left. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Check that the value on the right of the == matches the value on the left. ← 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