This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 19 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read the following passage: "How could you do this?" the painter screeched. "How could you paint that wall blue? It should clearly be orange!" How would the meaning of the sentence change if the author used the word "whimpered" instead of the word "screeched" ? A) The painter would seem more powerful. B) The painter would seem more joyful. C) The painter would seem more intelligent. D) The painter would seem more pathetic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The painter would seem more pathetic. 2. Choose the sentence with inverted syntax:The rain poured heavily. Heavily, the rain poured. Poured heavily, the rain. A) C. B) B. C) The heavily rain poured. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 3. What data type is classified as a sequenced of characters with double quotes. A) Boolean. B) Char. C) Float. D) String. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) String. 4. What will:answer = input("Give me a number")print(answer * 5)output? A) The value of answer multiplied by 5. B) Answer * 5. C) The value of answer repeated 5 times. D) An error message. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The value of answer repeated 5 times. 5. EX:In the baseball game, our team scored four homeruns, the other team, only two ..... A) Asyndeton. B) Ellipsis. C) Polysyndeton. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipsis. 6. Which sentence contain a participle phrase? A) The dog running up to the boy hopes that he will have a treat. B) The haunted house in the woods. C) He has appeared on screen as an actor. D) The boy in that car is very rich. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The dog running up to the boy hopes that he will have a treat. 7. How does the informal diction between Ponyboy and Johnny in Chapter 3 contribute to their relationship? A) It highlights a sense of distance and miscommunication between them. B) It shows their bond and comfort with each other. C) It implies tension and rivalry between the characters. D) It creates a formal tone that distances them emotionally. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It shows their bond and comfort with each other. 8. The idea that some words can be made plural and some words cannot is an ..... of language. A) Observable aspect. B) Unobservable theory. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Observable aspect. 9. Which word is a homophone of 'pair'? A) Pear. B) Peer. C) Pier. D) Pare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pear. 10. Which sentence uses passive voice? A) The children will eat the cake. B) The children ate the cake. C) The children are eating the cake. D) The cake was eaten by the children. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The cake was eaten by the children. 11. A verb phrase consists of a main verb and its ..... A) Phrasal verbs. B) Auxiliary verbs. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auxiliary verbs. 12. What is the primary focus of syntax in English? A) Sentence structure. B) Word choice. C) Tone. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sentence structure. 13. Original sentences:The Jones family was delayed by a traffic jam. They arrived several hours after the party started.Revised sentence:Delayed by a traffic jam, the Jones family arrived several hours after the party started.What varying sentence beginning is used in this revised sentence example? A) INFINITIVE. B) Prepositional Phrase. C) Dependent Clause. D) Starting with an ADJECTIVE / ADVERB. E) -ed Modifier. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) -ed Modifier. 14. (Passage #1) How would you best describe the overall tone of this passage? A) Worried. B) Informative. C) Optimistic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Optimistic. 15. Example of proper nouns ..... A) Butter. B) Sarah. C) Two. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sarah. 16. Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence: "He ran quickly, but he missed the bus." A) Simple. B) Compound-Complex. C) Compound. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compound. 17. When coding in Python what two instructions would I use if I want the program to select a choice? A) IFINPUT. B) IFCOUNT. C) IF PRINT. D) IFELSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) IFELSE. 18. Identify the main clause in the sentence:'If you study hard, you will pass the exam.' A) Pass the exam. B) If you study hard. C) Study hard. D) You will pass the exam. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) You will pass the exam. 19. It is a diagram that linguists use to structurally represent what's going on in sentences. A) Three diagram. B) Phrase structure diagram. C) Phrase diagram. D) Tree diagram. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tree diagram. 20. "The tour includes three Asian countries."Which is a noun phrase? A) The tour includes. B) Three Asian countries. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three Asian countries. 21. 10$^{2 }$= 100Which of the following is used in Python to calculate ten squared? A) 10 * 2. B) 10 ** 2. C) 10 % 2. D) 10 ** 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 10 ** 2. 22. 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) Compound sentence. C) Run-on. D) Complex sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound-complex sentence. 23. 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. 24. 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) Lyndon B. Johnson. B) George Bush. C) Abraham Lincoln. D) John F. Kennedy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John F. Kennedy. 25. 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. 26. Which word means "to make an idea, impression, or feeling known or understandable to someone" ? A) Syntax. B) Analyze. C) Form. D) Convey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convey. 27. Because I was out of milk A) Dependent clause. B) Independent clause. C) Parallelism. D) Asyndeton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dependent clause. 28. Diction is the literary term that means A) The connections we have with words. B) The definition of words. C) The common way of speaking with friends. D) An author's choice of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An author's choice of words. 29. 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. 30. How many KB in 3MB? A) 3, 000, 000KB. B) 3, 000, 000, 000KB. C) 0.3KB. D) 3, 000KB. 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