This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 17 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. In syntax rewriting, what is the main goal? A) To enhance the clarity and readability of a sentence. B) To change the meaning of a sentence. C) To add more words to a sentence. D) To make a sentence more complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To enhance the clarity and readability of a sentence. 2. Verbs that can stand on their own ..... A) Main verbs. B) Helping verbs. C) Finite verbs. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Main verbs. 3. Analyze the syntactic choice in the following sentence: "To win the game, you must practice every day." A) Use of an infinitive phrase. B) Use of passive voice. C) Use of a metaphor. D) Use of anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Use of an infinitive phrase. 4. Which of the following primitive data type is a 1-bit and has only two values:true and false A) Char. B) String. C) Int. D) Boolean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Boolean. 5. Used to describe the syntax of all programming languages, with minor exceptions A) Grammar. B) Context-Free Grammars. C) Backus-Naur Form. D) Metalanguage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Context-Free Grammars. 6. There are three types of complements, which are: A) Subject complements, object complements, and adverbial complements. B) Subject complements, complex complements, and compound complements. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Subject complements, object complements, and adverbial complements. 7. Python is an example of a ..... A) Text-based programming language. B) Object orientated programming language. C) Language written in java script. D) Visual-based programming language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Text-based programming language. 8. Why is it important to check documentation when unsure about syntax? A) To learn about the history of the programming language. B) To download the latest version of the language. C) To understand how to correctly type in the syntax. D) To find the developer's contact information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To understand how to correctly type in the syntax. 9. Choose unextended sentence A) Give me one ice cream, please. B) What's wrong?. C) What a beautiful night!. D) Go!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Go!. 10. Which method is used to round a floating-point number to the nearest integer in Java? A) Round(). B) Ceil(). C) Floor(). D) Math.round(). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Math.round(). 11. "I walked close to the left wall when I entered, but it was empty:just the stairs curving up into shadows." -William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury A) Colon. B) Dash. C) Period. D) Semicolon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colon. 12. Is this statement a sentence or a fragment?After finding the pencil on the floor. A) Sentence. B) Fragment. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. 13. Experienced writers incorporate sentence variety into their writing by varying sentence style and structure. Using a mixture of different sentence structures reduces repetition and adds emphasis to important points in the text. Is this statement true or false? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 14. Which of the following uses an auxiliary verb in elliptical construction, as a reply to "Won't you do it again?" A) No, I won't. B) Yes, I'll do it. C) Yes, I'll do it again. D) No, I won't do it again. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No, I won't. 15. What are the nouns in this sentence?There is no equivalent history of the Liberal party during this period. A) There is / equivalent history / liberal party. B) History / party / period. C) Equivalent / history / liberal / period. D) Equivalent / history / liberal / party / period. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) History / party / period. 16. Commands, requests, or instructs A) Declarative. B) Imperative. C) Exclamatory. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imperative. 17. What is the contemporary English version of:Hast or Hath A) Can. B) Does. C) Are. D) Will. E) Have. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Have. 18. Surrounds multi-line comments A) """. B) **. C) #. D) %. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) """. 19. Identify the type of phrase:** ..... Running quickly ..... ** is his hobby. A) NP. B) VP. C) PP. D) AdjP. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) VP. 20. The omission from speech or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues ..... A) Asyndeton. B) Ellipsis. C) Polysyndeton. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ellipsis. 21. Python has commenting capability for the purpose of in-code documentation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 22. A noun phrase can be formed by: A) A verb and a noun. B) An article and a noun. C) A preposition and a noun. D) A conjunction and a noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An article and a noun. 23. We know nothing of one another, nothing, Smiley mused. However closely we live together, at whatever time of day or night sound the deepest thoughts in one another, we know nothing. A) Anadiplosis. B) Epanalepsis. C) Epistrophe. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epanalepsis. 24. The ..... can only act as main verbs. A) Modal auxiliary verbs. B) Semantic verbs. C) Full/Lexical verbs. D) Primary verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Full/Lexical verbs. 25. Transform the following complex sentence into a compound sentence: "Because it was raining, we stayed inside." A) It was raining, so we stayed inside. B) It was raining; we stayed inside. C) We stayed inside because it was raining. D) It was raining, we stayed inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It was raining, so we stayed inside. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSyntax Quiz 1Syntax Quiz 2Syntax Quiz 3Syntax Quiz 4Syntax Quiz 5Syntax Quiz 6Syntax Quiz 7Syntax Quiz 8Syntax Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books