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 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these is the correct meaning of the word "fatigue" ? A) A state of extreme tiredness resulting from physical or mental exertion. B) Having trouble sleeping. C) Extreme hunger. D) Excitement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A state of extreme tiredness resulting from physical or mental exertion. 2. Which is correct CSS syntax? A) Body:color= black. B) Body {color:black;}. C) (body color is black). D) { body; color=black;}. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Body {color:black;}. 3. Invented by John Buckus to describe syntax of Algol 58, is equivalent to cfg A) Backus-Naur Form. B) Context-free grammar. C) Parse Tree. D) Attribute Grammars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Backus-Naur Form. 4. What is the subject in this sentence?The home page had links to Native American businesses and services A) Had. B) Native American. C) Links. D) Home page. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Home page. 5. What is the purpose of diction A) To provide opportunities for misinterpretation. B) To avoid provoking emotion in the reader. C) To get the message across to the reader. D) To divert the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To get the message across to the reader. 6. Which of the following revisions would you make to keep the meaning of the sentence and use the active voice? The race was won. A) Someone won the race. B) The winner of the race was determined. C) The race was won by someone. D) The race was won by the person who finished first. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone won the race. 7. Choose the sentence that begins with an adverbial clause. A) Under the covers, there was just enough light to read. B) Because I was in the middle of a good book, I did not want to stop reading. C) Slyly, I read my book with a flashlight. D) My mother told me it was time for bed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because I was in the middle of a good book, I did not want to stop reading. 8. What is the role of syntax in writing? A) Syntax has no role in writing. B) Syntax only affects the appearance of the written language. C) Syntax is only important in spoken language, not in writing. D) Syntax plays a crucial role in writing by providing structure and organization to the written language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax plays a crucial role in writing by providing structure and organization to the written language. 9. Why didn't you leave the party [early]? A) Noun phrase. B) Noun phrase. C) Adverb phrase. D) Adjective phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adverb phrase. 10. Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence: "She sings beautifully and plays the piano." A) Compound-Complex. B) Compound. C) Simple. D) Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple. 11. Rewrite the following sentence using inverted syntax:'The stars twinkled in the sky.' A) Sky the stars twinkled in. B) Twinkled in the sky the stars. C) In the sky twinkled the stars. D) The stars in the sky twinkled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the sky twinkled the stars. 12. Transform the following simple sentence into a complex sentence: "She was tired." A) She was tired because she had worked all day. B) She was tired, she had worked all day. C) She was tired; she had worked all day. D) She was tired and worked all day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She was tired because she had worked all day. 13. John read a book on chemistry. He found it very interesting. Is an example of ..... A) Clefting. B) Pronominalization. C) Coordination. D) Sentence Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pronominalization. 14. Each ..... in a tree to a set of branches [ ] A) Sentence. B) Branch. C) Node. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Node. 15. When a sentence is grammatical, we say that it is ..... A) Syntactically ill-formed. B) Syntactically good formed. C) Syntactically well-formed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syntactically well-formed. 16. Decide what the tone of the following sentence is:Eat your breakfast before I throw it away! A) Positive. B) Negative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 17. What is the result of the following expression:5 + 3 * 2? A) 8. B) 11. C) 13. D) 16. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 11. 18. Identify the phrase "A car that won't go" in the following sentence.A car that won't go is not particularly useful. A) Adverb Phrase. B) Noun Phrase. C) Prepositional Phrase. D) Adjective Phrase. E) Verb Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Noun Phrase. 19. During the intermission, our band played several songs. A) Active. B) Passive. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Active. 20. A stressed followed by an unstressed syllable is known as what meter? A) Anapestic. B) Dactylic. C) Trochaic. D) Iambic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trochaic. 21. In compiler design, which of the following is NOT a type of intermediate representation (IR)? A) Three address code. B) Machine code. C) Context free grammar. D) Abstract syntax tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Machine code. 22. Outerspace is used to organize your code, and it is a container for classes and other namespaces. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 23. They will hire some people to do the job. / Some people ..... to do the job. A) Will be hiring. B) Will have hired. C) Will be hired. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will be hired. 24. Which method is used to find the maximum value between two numbers in Java? A) Max(). B) Math.max(). C) Maximum(). D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Math.max(). 25. The correct way to write a variable in Python? A) My variable:10. B) My variable = 10. C) My variable = 10. D) My variable is 10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My variable = 10. 26. Normal or Inverted?Rarely has this happened before. A) Normal Word Order. B) Inverted Word order. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverted Word order. 27. Which tone word below best describes the following sentence?"Don't worry about a thing ..... because every little thing is going to be alright ..... " A) Pessimistic. B) Optimistic. C) Irritated. D) Tired. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Optimistic. 28. [ a car that won't go ] is not usefulIdentify type of phrase in the bracket A) Noun phrase. B) Adjective phrase. C) Verb phrase. D) Adverb phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun phrase. 29. What is a input? A) A function that allows us to ask the user to enter some data. B) To plug in something. C) Data displayed on a screen. D) A function. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A function that allows us to ask the user to enter some data. 30. You (object)I gave it to you = I gavest it to ..... A) Thy. B) Thou. C) Hast or Hath. D) Thee. E) Thine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thee. 31. Conditional meaning? A) To show the difference between ideas through parallelism. B) A realistic conclusion based on desires. C) Repeated words or phrase at the beginning of sentences that go one after the other. D) Repeating vowel sounds in words close together. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A realistic conclusion based on desires. 32. $^{Identify the use of DICTION in the following sentence:}$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. 33. Given a grammar, how do you compute the First() set for a non-terminal? A) It contains all terminal symbols that can appear at the beginning of any string derived from the non-terminal. B) It contains all terminal symbols that can follow the non-terminal in the grammar. C) It contains all symbols that can be derived from the non-terminal. D) It contains all symbols that can be produced by the non-terminal in the grammar's rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It contains all terminal symbols that can appear at the beginning of any string derived from the non-terminal. 34. To win, Ken ran the race smiling, sure of his success. What type of sentence beginning is employed in this example? A) Participial Phrase. B) Infinitive. C) Adjective/Adverb. D) Prepositional Phrase. E) Dependent Clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Infinitive. 35. What is the purpose of the lookahead token in top-down parsing? A) To check for semantic errors. B) To generate intermediate code. C) To determine which production rule to apply next. D) To backtrack and retry parsing strategies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To determine which production rule to apply next. 36. [The orange cat lying on the windowsill] has been asleep for the last 8 hours. A) Verb phrase. B) Adjective phrase. C) Verb phrase. D) Noun phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noun phrase. 37. Tone can best be described as: A) Author's attitude. B) Author's mood. C) Author's opinion. D) Author's life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Author's attitude. 38. Coordination is a test that is always very reliable. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 39. Normal or Inverted?Not only does Kim need a friend, but a family as well. A) Normal Word Order. B) Inverted Word Order. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inverted Word Order. 40. The abababcc rhymed Ottava rima was introduced to England by this same poet who introduced the Petrarchan sonnet: A) Thomas Wyatt. B) William Shakespeare. C) Gerard Manley Hopkins. D) Philip Sidney. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thomas Wyatt. 41. Which arrangement forms a coherent sentence? A) Playing / guitar / she / loves / the. B) She / loves / playing / the / guitar. C) Guitar / the / she / playing / loves. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She / loves / playing / the / guitar. 42. Which one is the correct syntax for a CSS ruleset? A) Selector {value:property}. B) Property {selector:value}. C) Value {property:selector}. D) Selector { property:value}. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Selector { property:value}. 43. What symbol is used in python to assign values to a variable? A) Forward slash /. B) Equals =. C) Asterisk *. D) Plus +. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Equals =. 44. A language that is used to describe another language. BNF = metalanguage for programming languages A) Grammar. B) Metalanguage. C) Backus-Naur Form. D) Context-Free Grammars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metalanguage. 45. Symbol used for modulo A) #. B) **. C) %. D) &. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) %. 46. 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 pathetic. C) The painter would seem more joyful. D) The painter would seem more intelligent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The painter would seem more pathetic. 47. Choose the sentence with inverted syntax:The rain poured heavily. Heavily, the rain poured. Poured heavily, the rain. A) C. B) The heavily rain poured. C) B. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) B. 48. What data type is classified as a sequenced of characters with double quotes. A) Char. B) Float. C) Boolean. D) String. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) String. 49. What will:answer = input("Give me a number")print(answer * 5)output? A) The value of answer repeated 5 times. B) Answer * 5. C) An error message. D) The value of answer multiplied by 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The value of answer repeated 5 times. 50. 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. 51. 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. 52. 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. 53. Which word is a homophone of 'pair'? A) Pare. B) Peer. C) Pier. D) Pear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pear. 54. Which sentence uses passive voice? A) The children are eating the cake. B) The cake was eaten by the children. C) The children will eat the cake. D) The children ate the cake. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cake was eaten by the children. 55. 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. 56. What is the primary focus of syntax in English? A) Word choice. B) Tone. C) Figurative language. D) Sentence structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sentence structure. 57. 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) -ed Modifier. B) Dependent Clause. C) INFINITIVE. D) Starting with an ADJECTIVE / ADVERB. E) Prepositional Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ed Modifier. 58. (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. 59. Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence: "He ran quickly, but he missed the bus." A) Complex. B) Compound. C) Simple. D) Compound-Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compound. 60. When coding in Python what two instructions would I use if I want the program to select a choice? A) IF PRINT. B) IFCOUNT. C) IFINPUT. D) IFELSE. 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