This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 9 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is word choice called A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Vocabulary. D) Grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 2. How many constituents do we have on the sentence given.The boy hit the ball. A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 3. The officer did nothing about the accident. A) Active. B) Passive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Active. 4. Identify the sentence core of the following lyric: "When she opened up the door, he ran." A) She opened. B) She ran. C) Door ran. D) He ran. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He ran. 5. Mood can best be described as: A) Author's attitude. B) Feelings and emotions of a text. C) Author's opinion. D) Author's audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feelings and emotions of a text. 6. Posthabita Samo (abl abs) A) Her old habit Samos. B) With Samos being left behind. C) Sammy left her behind. D) For the habitation of Sami. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With Samos being left behind. 7. What is the correct way to declare a constant variable in Java? A) Float PI = 3.14;. B) Double PI = 3.14;. C) Final int PI = 3.14;. D) Final double PI = 3.14;. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Final double PI = 3.14;. 8. A grammar that may generate more than one distinct parse trees for the same expression is ambiguous A) Sentential Form. B) EBNF. C) Leftmost Derivations. D) Ambiguity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambiguity. 9. What special type of sentence is the following:After shopping at the mall, walking the dogs, and washing the car, I finally got to stay in and relax. A) Cumulative. B) Periodic. C) Imperative. D) Inverted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periodic. 10. Which statement is used to exit a loop in Java? A) System.exit(). B) Continue. C) Return. D) Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) System.exit(). 11. The verb phrase in the phrase: "The teacher and his students worked in the project" A) The teacher and his students. B) Worked. C) Worked in the project. D) The teacher and his students worked. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Worked in the project. 12. What is the correct possessive pronoun to complete the sentence? That book is ..... A) He. B) He's. C) His. D) Him. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) His. 13. What is a common reason for using syntax rewriting in writing? A) To improve sentence clarity and coherence. B) To increase word count. C) To use more complex vocabulary. D) To make sentences longer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To improve sentence clarity and coherence. 14. Which of the following words would be useful in starting an adverb sentence? A) Next. B) My. C) Excited. D) Hinting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Next. 15. What can the reader infer from this excerpt?On the afternoon of April 14, 1935, Irene Thompson looked up with wide eyes and saw a huge black cloud covering the sky and racing towards her. It wasn't a thunderstorm or smoke-it was dust. A) Irene couldn't tell what the cloud was. B) Irene was excited at the sight of the cloud. C) Irene thought she could outrun the cloud. D) Irene was scared at the sight of the cloud. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irene was scared at the sight of the cloud. 16. What is the correct way to declare a method in Java that does not return any value? A) Int methodName(). B) MethodName():void. C) MethodName(). D) Void methodName(). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Void methodName(). 17. The claim that Mary is a great surgeon is unbelievable.The main clause of the sentence is: A) The claim is unbelievable. B) Mary is a great surgeon. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The claim is unbelievable. 18. Select the most accurate translation for the selection:ab oris Troiae A) From the shores of Troy. B) To the borders of Troy. C) From the lips of Trojan women. D) From the mouth of the Tiber. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From the shores of Troy. 19. What is the contemporary English version of:hither A) Where. B) There. C) Why. D) Here. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Here. 20. Choose the sentence that uses the correct past tense form. A) He running to the store. B) He run to the store. C) He runned to the store. D) He ran to the store. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He ran to the store. 21. Every C# statement ends with a colon: A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. A Java block is formed by enclosing statements by open and close parentheses. True or False? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. Which of the following has a NEGATIVE connotation? A) "Maybe he steals the thing so we think it's lost". B) "The neighbors discovered his talent accidentally". C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Maybe he steals the thing so we think it's lost". 24. It was the first football game for the Gators. The coach asked if everyone was ready. The players jumped and replied, "Yes!" In what tone did the Gators's reply? A) Calm. B) Serious. C) Happy. D) Enthusiastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enthusiastic. 25. Which of these is not an arithmetic operator? A) *. B) =. C) -. D) +. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) =. 26. Python is a ..... side programming language. A) West. B) Server. C) East. D) Client. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Server. 27. Which is the value in this CSS?p {color:red;} A) P. B) Color. C) Red. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red. 28. One difference between syntax and diction is that diction deals with the arrangement or order of words and syntax uses different words with similar meanings. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 29. Stores a piece of data, and gives it a specific name A) Variable. B) Modulo. C) Whitespace. D) Interpreter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Variable. 30. Lexems and tokens (right-hand side) of rules 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: E) Terminal. ← 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