This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 21 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. TRUE or FALSE:Any expression that occupies the same position in NP structure as an article counts as a determiner. A) A. TRUE. B) B. FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. TRUE. 2. What is the correct form of the sentence in simple future tense? A) She will go to the store. B) She going to the store. C) She go to the store. D) She will goes to the store. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She will go to the store. 3. What is the word (command) used to display numbers and text on the screen? A) Print. B) Input. C) Output. D) Command. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Print. 4. The third symbol is in the form of curly brackets { }, that indicate ..... A) A phrase when it has multiple or ambiguous meaning. B) Two letters that must be enclosed when they have similarities. C) That only one of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That only one of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected. 5. EX:And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.-Abraham Lincoln A) Anadiplosis. B) Antimetabole. C) Epanalepsis. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 6. "be" and "have" are ..... A) Aspectual auxiliaries. B) The passive auxiliary be. C) The dummy auxiliary do. D) Modal auxiliaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aspectual auxiliaries. 7. In the sentence, "The fat man ate, " which part is the verb? A) Ate. B) Ate food. C) The fat man. D) Man. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ate. 8. Every line of code that runs in C# must be inside a class. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Which type of loop is suitable when the number of iterations is known? A) For loop. B) Nested loop. C) Do-while loop. D) While loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) For loop. 10. When you have an error in your code what is the term to summarise finding and fixing that error? A) Error checking. B) Debugging. C) Syntax finder. D) Error finder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Debugging. 11. $_{Pass the following sentence to passive voice.}$Mary orders the drinks. A) The drinks is ordered by her. B) The drinks were ordered by her. C) The drinks was ordered by she. D) The drinks are ordered by her. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The drinks are ordered by her. 12. What will be the output?name = 'Fred'print (name) A) Name. B) 'Fred'. C) (name). D) Fred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fred. 13. What movies are showing this weekend? A) Interrogative. B) Imperative. C) Declarative. D) Exclamatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interrogative. 14. Select the correct order to create a meaningful sentence: A) Delicious / cake / baked / my / mother / yesterday. B) Baked / my / mother / delicious / cake / yesterday. C) My / mother / baked / delicious / cake / yesterday. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My / mother / baked / delicious / cake / yesterday. 15. Which of the following is a correct example of subject-verb agreement? A) The team are winning. B) The team were winning. C) The team has win. D) The team is winning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The team is winning. 16. What is a common limitation of top-down parsers? A) They cannot handle left-recursive grammars. B) They are slower than bottom-up parsers. C) They are unable to build parse trees. D) They require a large number of lookahead tokens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They cannot handle left-recursive grammars. 17. Which of the following Python code is correct? A) Age = input ("What is your age? "). B) Age=input ("What is your age? "). C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Age = input ("What is your age? "). 18. Which is the correct PHP tag? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) . 19. "Someone is going to have to do it" is an example of A) Marginal modal. B) Semi-auxiliaries in a sequence. C) Modal idioms. D) Catenative verb constructions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semi-auxiliaries in a sequence. 20. Subject + Verb + Object A) Basic. B) Periodic. C) Cumulative. D) Loose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Basic. 21. What is the contemporary English version of:whence A) From where. B) Why. C) How. D) What. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From where. 22. Improper tab placement will prevent a block of code from running properly. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. Identify the sentence with inverted syntax:'Only after the rain stopped did we go outside.' A) Normal Word Order. B) Inverted Word Order. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverted Word Order. 24. Repetition of words in successive clauses, but in TRANSPOSED ORDER. A) Epanalepsis. B) Anadiplosis. C) Epistrophe. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antimetabole. 25. Which sentence uses informal diction? A) The man left. B) The gentleman departed. C) The individual exited. D) The dude took off. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The dude took off. 26. $^{What part of the sentence is emphasized by its syntax?}$"Both his parents had been killed when he was eight years old." A) He was eight years old. B) Both his parents had been killed . C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Both his parents had been killed . 27. Which sentence uses the present perfect verb tense? A) Sean leaves at 7:00 a.m. every day. B) Juliet is going to drive home tomorrow. C) He's been there a few times already. D) Ben thinks the present is perfect for his mother. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He's been there a few times already. 28. How does the use of syntax in a poem affect its overall tone? A) It determines the poem's rhythm and flow, influencing the reader's emotional response. B) It has no effect on the poem's tone. C) It only affects the poem's length. D) It solely determines the poem's vocabulary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It determines the poem's rhythm and flow, influencing the reader's emotional response. 29. EX:The general who became a slave. The slave who became a gladiator. The gladiator who defied an emperor. Striking story! A) Epistrophe. B) Epanalepsis. C) Antimetabole. D) Anadiplosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anadiplosis. 30. What is structural ambiguity A) Potential of having more than one meaning. B) Potential of having no meaning. C) Potential of having only one meaning. D) None of the above. 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