This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 19 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Identify the sentence with inverted syntax:The wind howled in the night. Howling in the night, the wind. In the night, the wind howled. A) Howled the wind in the night. B) Howling in the night, the wind. C) The wind in the night howled. D) The night howled in the wind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Howling in the night, the wind. 2. Syntax can best be defined as ..... A) Word choice. B) Rhetorical question. C) Sentence structure. D) How we build argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sentence structure. 3. Formal language-genmeration mechanisms used to describe syntax of programming languages A) Grammar. B) Context-Free Grammars. C) Backus-Naur Form. D) Metalanguage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grammar. 4. What is the main stucture of a sentence? A) AP + NP. B) PP + NP. C) NP + VP. D) AP + VP. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) NP + VP. 5. Prepositional phrases can be daughters of ..... A) Noun phrases. B) Verb phrases. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 6. Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. A) Voice. B) Diction. C) Syntax. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 7. What is Python? A) Text based programming language. B) Word processor. C) Spreadsheet. D) Block based programming language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Text based programming language. 8. Which operator is used to check if two values are not equal in Java? A) ==. B) =. C) !=. D) <>. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) !=. 9. Last night the boys ..... jumping on their bed. A) Were. B) Was. C) Are. D) Is. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Were. 10. The common sentence structure in English is A) Verb-object-subject. B) Object-verb-subject. C) Subject-verb-object. D) Subject-subject-verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Subject-verb-object. 11. Which punctuation mark is used to connect two independent clauses? A) Colon. B) Semicolon. C) Dash. D) Hyphen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semicolon. 12. Identify the adjunct in the following sentence:The blonde art student A) The. B) Blonde. C) Art. D) Student. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blonde. 13. If a sentence is missing a subject or a verb it is called a ..... ? A) Comma Splice. B) Fragment. C) Run-on sentence. D) Conjunction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fragment. 14. YourIt is your coat. = 'Tis ..... coat. A) Thou. B) Thee. C) Thy. D) Thine. E) Hast or Hath. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thy. 15. Dum conderet urbem A) While he found the city. B) Unfund the city. C) Until he could establish a city. D) When he cordoned the city. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Until he could establish a city. 16. Syntax is the component of grammar that deals with ..... A) How words can be heard through writing. B) How words and phrases are combined into larger phrases. C) How phrases change into larger phrases. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) How words and phrases are combined into larger phrases. 17. What is the purpose of Recognizer? A) Perform Validity of a Input. B) Perform Validation of a Input. C) Generating inputs. D) Accept good strings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Perform Validation of a Input. 18. Identify the complement in the following sentence:The blonde art student A) The. B) Blonde. C) Art. D) Student. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Art. 19. What can a variable not start with? A) A special character. B) A capital letter. C) A number. D) A lower case letter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A number. 20. My mother \{work\} in a that company?What type of speech is \{work\} A) Adverb. B) Noun. C) Verb. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb. 21. A specific order of symbol replacement in senential forms-the replaced nonterminal is always the left-most non-terminal in the previous sentential form A) Sentential Form. B) Leftmost Derivations. C) Ambiguity. D) EBNF. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leftmost Derivations. 22. Which of the following is not a noun phrase structure rule? A) NP= (D) N (AdjP). B) NP= (AdjP) N (PP+). C) NP= (AdjP) N (PP). D) NP= V (N) (Adv) PP. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) NP= V (N) (Adv) PP. 23. The arrangement of words and order of grammatical elements in a sentence A) Language. B) Dialect. C) Dialogue. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 24. Decide what the tone of the following sentence is:The character can be seen riding a bike under the bright summer sun. A) Positive. B) Negative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Positive. 25. Combine the following sentences for clarity: "The cake was delicious. Everyone wanted a second piece." A) The cake was delicious, and everyone wanted a second piece. B) The cake was delicious; everyone wanted a second piece. C) The cake was delicious, everyone wanted a second piece. D) The cake was delicious and everyone wanted a second piece. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The cake was delicious, and everyone wanted a second piece. ← 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