This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My dog [ate my homework] last night. A) Noun phrase. B) Verb phrase. C) Adjective phrase. D) Prepositional phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verb phrase. 2. Which operator is used to compare two values for equality? A) !=. B) ==. C) =. D) Equals(). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ==. 3. Suffixes and prefixes are: A) Content words. B) Function words. C) Inflectional morphemes. D) Derivational morphemes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Derivational morphemes. 4. Identify the sentence core of the following sentence:My neighbor's pet cat destroyed her furniture while she slept last night! A) Destroyed night. B) Pet slept. C) Neighbor slept. D) Cat destroyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cat destroyed. 5. ..... when you phoned them? A) Were they sleeping. B) Was they sleeping. C) Did they sleep. D) They were sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were they sleeping. 6. Choose the correct sentence structure:[The cat sat on the mat.] A) Subject-Verb-Complement. B) Subject-Verb-Adverbial. C) Subject-Verb-Prepositional Phrase. D) Subject-Verb-Object. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject-Verb-Prepositional Phrase. 7. (Passage #1) How do the short, simple sentences in paragraph 2 affect the tone? A) They speed up the paragraph, making the tone more excited and tense. B) They slow down the paragraph, making the tone more suspenseful and serious. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They speed up the paragraph, making the tone more excited and tense. 8. Macbeth removed the daggers from the sleeping guards, and he used their weapons to stab King Duncan to death. A) Compound. B) Complex. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound. 9. If you are proud of yourself, I'm proud of you too. A) Coordination. B) Subordination. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subordination. 10. PERIODIC SYNTAX has the main idea ..... A) At the beginning of the sentence. B) At the end of the sentence. C) In a different paragraph. D) In the middle of the sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the end of the sentence. 11. I appreciated her efforts and complimented her work. A) Positive. B) Negative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive. 12. Choose the sentence with correct subject-verb agreement:'The team of players is winning.' A) The team of players are winning. B) The team of players have winning. C) The team of players were winning. D) The team of players is winning. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The team of players is winning. 13. The word "syntax" refers to ..... ? A) How the sentence is capitalized. B) Where to place the punctation marks like commas and periods. C) The way the words and phrases are arranged in the sentence. D) The point of view of the subject first, second, or third person. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The way the words and phrases are arranged in the sentence. 14. Authors set a TONE or MOOD in literature by conveying an emotion or emotions through ..... A) Words. B) Pictures. C) Height. D) Funny faces. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words. 15. Used to make comments A) %. B) (). C) **. D) #. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) #. 16. What is word order? A) The sequence in which words are pronounced in a conversation. B) The arrangement of words in a sentence, which affects its meaning. C) The order in which words are written in a book. D) The way words are categorized in a dictionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The arrangement of words in a sentence, which affects its meaning. 17. The way words and clauses are arranged to form sentences A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Sentence classification. D) Formal diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 18. Because of geologists' efforts to predict the eruption, loss of life was minimal.In this sentence, "was" is a ..... ? A) Subject. B) Pro-noun. C) Verb. D) Conjunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb. 19. Identify whether the sentence is in active or passive voice.The puppy chewed the bone. A) Active. B) Passive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Active. 20. Part of speech that connects clauses or sentences or to coordinate words in the same clause. A) Pronoun. B) Adjective. C) Conjunction. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conjunction. 21. Which of the following is a Python command word used to indicate we want to work with DECIMAL numbers A) Print. B) Int. C) Float. D) Input. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Float. 22. In the sentence "I like apples, " which principle is being followed by omitting "do" ? A) Economy. B) Merge. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Economy. 23. Identifiers can start with a number. True or False? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. A writer's attitude toward the subject being discussed A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Tone. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 25. Which sentence demonstrates varied syntax? A) She went to the store, bought milk, and returned home. B) She went to the store. She bought milk. She returned home. C) She went to the store; she bought milk; she returned home. D) She went to the store and bought milk, then she returned home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She went to the store, bought milk, and returned home. 26. Which example is a fragment? A) This is a wonderful movie. B) My sister's cat. C) People talked. D) My dog is cute, his name is George. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) My sister's cat. 27. True or False:A verb is who/what the sentence is about? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 28. Which of the following sentences uses inverted syntax? In the garden, the flowers bloomed. The flowers bloomed in the garden. Blooming in the garden, the flowers. A) A. B) C. C) D. D) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) C. 29. Which of the following is not a verb phrase structure rule? A) VP $\rightarrow$ V (AdvP). B) VP $\rightarrow$ (AdvP+) V (NP ) (NP) (AdvP+) (PP+) (AdvP+). C) VP $\rightarrow$ (V) NP (NP) (AP+). D) VP $\rightarrow$ (AdvP+) V (NP) (NP) (AdvP+). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) VP $\rightarrow$ (V) NP (NP) (AP+). 30. Which sentence demonstrates inverted syntax? 'Hardly ever does he speak in class.' A) Normal Word Order. B) Inverted Word Order. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverted Word Order. 31. Which sentence uses correct syntax? A) Running quickly the dog caught the ball. B) The dog running quickly caught the ball. C) The dog caught the ball running quickly. D) Quickly running the dog caught the ball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The dog running quickly caught the ball. 32. This book will change your life. / Your life ..... by this book. A) Will be changing. B) Will be changed. C) Will have been changed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Will be changed. 33. Which one is NOT a small set of words which perform the same function as the articles? A) Possessives:my, your. her . B) Pronoun:he, she . C) Certain Quantifiers:some, any, no, each . D) Demonstratives:this, that, these, those. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pronoun:he, she . 34. ::= | ::= 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9What are the Non-Terminals in above grammar? A) . B) . C) 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9. D) Both . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both . 35. Generative grammar is A) To have infinite set of rules to creater finite sentences. B) To have finite set of rules to creater infinite sentences. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To have finite set of rules to creater infinite sentences. 36. Identify the syntax in the following sentence:'The cat sat on the mat.' A) The choice of the word 'cat'. B) The use of the word 'sat'. C) The structure of the sentence. D) The rhyme of 'cat' and 'mat'. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The structure of the sentence. 37. She will not recognize us. / We ..... by her. A) Will not recognize. B) Will not being recognized. C) Will not be recognized. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will not be recognized. 38. What are the basic determiners? A) The Nouns (N). B) The Articles (ART). C) The Nominal (NOM). D) The Modal (MOD). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Articles (ART). 39. Multa passus bello A) Many men suffered for war. B) Many suffering people went to war. C) Having suffered many things in war. D) Passing through many wars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having suffered many things in war. 40. What a sunny day! A) Declarative. B) Exclamatory. C) Interrogative. D) Imperative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exclamatory. 41. What is the ultimate goal of the Minimalist Program in linguistic theory? A) To increase the number of linguistic rules for better understanding. B) To uncover the most economical and universal principles that underlie human language. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To uncover the most economical and universal principles that underlie human language. 42. What is generative grammar? A) Defines the syntactic structures of a language. B) Two different events that can be expressed in the same structure form. C) Process of repeating any number of times. D) Set of logical rules formulated to be capable in generating the infinite number of possible sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Set of logical rules formulated to be capable in generating the infinite number of possible sentences. 43. What does an 'invalid syntax' error indicate when using a semicolon instead of a comma? A) The semicolon is correctly placed. B) The code is completely correct. C) The syntax doesn't make sense to the interpreter. D) The code is missing a semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The syntax doesn't make sense to the interpreter. 44. Speeds up the pace of a sentence. A) Ellipsis. B) Polysendeton. C) Asyndeton. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Asyndeton. 45. Which symbol for variables in PHP? A) Var(). B) $. C) Type VarName. D) &. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $. 46. What special type of sentence is the following:Down that dark path sits the haunted house. A) Inverted. B) Interrogative. C) Cumulative. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inverted. 47. Who developed the Minimalist Program? A) Ferdinand de Saussure. B) Noam Chomsky. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noam Chomsky. 48. Which of the following phrase structure rules is not right? A) VP$\rightarrow$ V (NP) (PP) (Adv). B) PP$\rightarrow$ Prep (NP). C) CP $\rightarrow$ C S. D) TP $\rightarrow$ NP (Aux) VP. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CP $\rightarrow$ C S. 49. What is recursion? A) Process of repeting any number of times. B) Putting together or arrangement. C) Word formation. D) Phrases, clause and sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Process of repeting any number of times. 50. Is this statement a sentence or a fragment?Did tell you about the resource at the Seventh Generation Fund Site? A) Sentence. B) Fragment. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. 51. The direct object is the always located in the ..... A) Subject. B) Predicate. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Predicate. 52. What effect does Hinton achieve by using short, fragmented sentences when Ponyboy describes his thoughts during the confrontation with Bob? A) It gives a sense of calmness and control to the scene. B) It slows the pace of the conversation to make it feel reflective. C) It highlights the inner turmoil and urgency in Ponyboy's mind. D) It creates an air of mystery surrounding Ponyboy's thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It highlights the inner turmoil and urgency in Ponyboy's mind. 53. Choose the sentence with inverted syntax:'Never before have I heard such a thing.' A) Normal Word Order. B) Inverted Word Order. C) Neither. D) Both. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverted Word Order. 54. Which of the following is not true when making a tree diagram? A) Make sure that everything is attached to the tree. B) Don't cross lines. C) Make sure all branches in the tree have a part of speech label. D) Make sure that every category has more than one line immediately on top of it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Make sure that every category has more than one line immediately on top of it. 55. $^{What part of the sentence is emphasized by its SYNTAX?}$" I listen as my neighbor's voice trails off." A) I listen . B) As my neighbor . C) Voice trails off. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I listen . 56. The subject of a sentence is the part that contains ..... A) The verb/action being performed. B) The object directly receiving the action. C) The person or thing performing the action. D) The general concept of the sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The person or thing performing the action. 57. Indentation refers to the spaces at the ending of a code line. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 58. Which of the following words would be helpful in starting a prepositional phrase sentence? A) Below. B) Walking. C) Wakanda. D) Although. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Below. 59. What will the following code do? name = "Bob"if name == "Bob":print ("Hello '' + name) else:print ("I dont know you") A) Nothing syntax error. B) Prints I don't know you. C) Prints bob. D) Prints Hello Bob. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prints Hello Bob. 60. Which method is used to convert a string to uppercase in Java? A) ToUpperCase(). B) Uppercase(). C) ToUpperCase(). D) ConvertToUpperCase(). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ToUpperCase(). ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesSyntax Quiz 1Syntax Quiz 2Syntax Quiz 3Syntax Quiz 4Syntax Quiz 5Syntax Quiz 7Syntax Quiz 8Syntax Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books