This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 21 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 21 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the subject in this sentence?The home page had links to Native American businesses and services A) Native American. B) Home page. C) Links. D) Had. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Home page. 2. What is the purpose of diction A) To get the message across to the reader. B) To divert the reader. C) To provide opportunities for misinterpretation. D) To avoid provoking emotion in the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To get the message across to the reader. 3. 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 race was won by someone. C) The winner of the race was determined. D) The race was won by the person who finished first. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone won the race. 4. Choose the sentence that begins with an adverbial clause. A) My mother told me it was time for bed. 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) Under the covers, there was just enough light to read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Because I was in the middle of a good book, I did not want to stop reading. 5. 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. 6. Why didn't you leave the party [early]? A) Adverb phrase. B) Noun phrase. C) Adjective phrase. D) Noun phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adverb phrase. 7. How many part of speech? A) 5. B) 6. C) 8. D) 9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 8. 8. Identify the sentence structure of the following sentence: "She sings beautifully and plays the piano." A) Simple. B) Compound. C) Complex. D) Compound-Complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple. 9. Rewrite the following sentence using inverted syntax:'The stars twinkled in the sky.' A) The stars in the sky twinkled. B) Twinkled in the sky the stars. C) In the sky twinkled the stars. D) Sky the stars twinkled in. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the sky twinkled the stars. 10. 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. 11. John read a book on chemistry. He found it very interesting. Is an example of ..... A) Pronominalization. B) Clefting. C) Coordination. D) Sentence Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pronominalization. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. 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. 15. What is the result of the following expression:5 + 3 * 2? A) 16. B) 8. C) 13. D) 11. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 11. 16. Which of the following words would be helpful in starting an adverb sentence? A) Beneath. B) Strumming. C) Fortunately. D) Guitar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fortunately. 17. Identify the phrase "A car that won't go" in the following sentence.A car that won't go is not particularly useful. A) Adjective Phrase. B) Adverb Phrase. C) Verb Phrase. D) Prepositional Phrase. E) Noun Phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Noun Phrase. 18. 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. 19. A stressed followed by an unstressed syllable is known as what meter? A) Iambic. B) Dactylic. C) Trochaic. D) Anapestic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Trochaic. 20. In compiler design, which of the following is NOT a type of intermediate representation (IR)? A) Abstract syntax tree. B) Machine code. C) Three address code. D) Context free grammar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Machine code. 21. 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. 22. 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. 23. 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(). 24. The correct way to write a variable in Python? A) My variable = 10. B) My variable = 10. C) My variable is 10. D) My variable:10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) My variable = 10. 25. 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. 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