This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 25 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 25 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Select the answer choise that identifies the noun in the sentence:To seize a foreign embassy and its inhabitants is fragnant disregard for diplomatic neutrality. A) Seize. B) Its. C) Fragrant. D) Neutrality. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Neutrality. 2. Which of the following sentences contains a modal idiom? A) The class is to take place in the morning. B) You mustn't say that. C) Shall we go?. D) Would you be there?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The class is to take place in the morning. 3. What special type of sentence is the following: "I came; I saw; I conquered." A) Chiasmus. B) Antithesis. C) Triadic. D) Inverted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Triadic. 4. What grammatical element is contained in the following sentence? The dog is hiding under the porch. A) Infinitive phrase. B) Dependent clause. C) Gerund phrase. D) Prepositional phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prepositional phrase. 5. Below are the distributional criteria for nouns, except ..... A) Nouns can be preceded by words such as the, a, this/these, that/those, etc. B) Nouns can also be preceded by adjectives. C) Nouns denote people, animals, things or places. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nouns denote people, animals, things or places. 6. An appositive or noun phrase A) Must be a complete sentence. B) Renames or defines another noun. C) Doesn't need to be enclosed with commas. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Renames or defines another noun. 7. TRUE or FALSE:Any expression that occupies the same position in NP structure as an article counts as a determiner. A) A. TRUE. B) B. FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. TRUE. 8. What is the correct form of the sentence in simple future tense? A) She will goes to the store. B) She going to the store. C) She will go to the store. D) She go to the store. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She will go to the store. 9. What is the word (command) used to display numbers and text on the screen? A) Print. B) Input. C) Output. D) Command. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Print. 10. The third symbol is in the form of curly brackets \{ \}, that indicate ..... A) A phrase when it has multiple or ambiguous meaning. B) Two letters that must be enclosed when they have similarities. C) That only one of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That only one of the elements enclosed within the curly brackets must be selected. 11. EX:And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.-Abraham Lincoln A) Anadiplosis. B) Epanalepsis. C) Epistrophe. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epistrophe. 12. "be" and "have" are ..... A) Modal auxiliaries. B) Aspectual auxiliaries. C) The passive auxiliary be. D) The dummy auxiliary do. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aspectual auxiliaries. 13. In the sentence, "The fat man ate, " which part is the verb? A) Man. B) Ate. C) The fat man. D) Ate food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ate. 14. Every line of code that runs in C# must be inside a class. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Which type of loop is suitable when the number of iterations is known? A) While loop. B) Do-while loop. C) For loop. D) Nested loop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) For loop. 16. When you have an error in your code what is the term to summarise finding and fixing that error? A) Error checking. B) Debugging. C) Syntax finder. D) Error finder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Debugging. 17. $_{Pass the following sentence to passive voice.}$Mary orders the drinks. A) The drinks was ordered by she. B) The drinks were ordered by her. C) The drinks are ordered by her. D) The drinks is ordered by her. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The drinks are ordered by her. 18. What will be the output?name = 'Fred'print (name) A) Fred. B) 'Fred'. C) Name. D) (name). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fred. 19. What movies are showing this weekend? A) Declarative. B) Exclamatory. C) Imperative. D) Interrogative. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Interrogative. 20. Select the correct order to create a meaningful sentence: A) Delicious / cake / baked / my / mother / yesterday. B) Baked / my / mother / delicious / cake / yesterday. C) My / mother / baked / delicious / cake / yesterday. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My / mother / baked / delicious / cake / yesterday. 21. Which of the following is a correct example of subject-verb agreement? A) The team are winning. B) The team is winning. C) The team were winning. D) The team has win. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The team is winning. 22. What is a common limitation of top-down parsers? A) They cannot handle left-recursive grammars. B) They are slower than bottom-up parsers. C) They are unable to build parse trees. D) They require a large number of lookahead tokens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They cannot handle left-recursive grammars. 23. Which of the following Python code is correct? A) Age = input ("What is your age? "). B) Age=input ("What is your age? "). C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Age = input ("What is your age? "). 24. Which is the correct PHP tag? A) . B) . C) . D) . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) . 25. "Someone is going to have to do it" is an example of A) Marginal modal. B) Modal idioms. C) Catenative verb constructions. D) Semi-auxiliaries in a sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Semi-auxiliaries in a sequence. ← 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