This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 37 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 37 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Extended BNF, designed to enhance readability for humans-no other benefit A) Sentential Form. B) Leftmost Derivations. C) Ambiguity. D) EBNF. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) EBNF. 2. Anaphora meaning? A) Repeated words or phrase at the beginning of sentences that go one after the other. B) Repeating vowel sounds in words close together. C) To show the difference between ideas through parallelism. D) Repeating consonant sounds in words close together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeated words or phrase at the beginning of sentences that go one after the other. 3. What impact does the author's use of short, abrupt sentences have on the tone of the text? A) It creates a relaxed and leisurely tone. B) It establishes a tense and urgent tone. C) It suggests a tone of confusion. D) It implies a tone of indifference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It establishes a tense and urgent tone. 4. What type of sentence is the following:Although Joe ran the race, he was still energetic. A) Compound. B) Complex. C) Simple. D) Compound-complex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complex. 5. The verb "to give" is di-transitive. Robert gives Julia an apple. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. (Read this sentence) Wikipedia is making an effort to improve its accuracy by hiring an army of individuals to hunt down faulty information on its site. (The language in this sentence creates a sense of ..... ) A) Intelligence. B) Determination. C) Obedience. D) Resignation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Determination. 7. I like him because he is handsome.Because is a/an ..... A) Conjunction. B) Adverb. C) Preposition. D) Article. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjunction. 8. Why is diction important? A) Because the word choice that a poem uses impacts how we read something or how we understand it. B) Because formal word choice makes everything sound more important. C) Because informal language is not appropriate for school. D) Because Mrs. Kuntz said so (don't pick this one, PLEASE). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Because the word choice that a poem uses impacts how we read something or how we understand it. 9. Noun Phrases are strings of words whose central element is a ..... A) Subject. B) Phrase. C) Noun. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noun. 10. Which sentence uses the correct word order for a question in English? A) You are going to the party?. B) Are you going to the party?. C) Going you are to the party?. D) To the party you are going?. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are you going to the party?. 11. Which word means "refers to a writer's selection of words based on meaning (both denotative and connotative), specificity, tone, and audience. Also called diction, this is an essential ingredient of style" ? A) Imagery. B) Antecedent. C) Grammar. D) Word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Word choice. 12. The following are major verb classes except A) Modal auxiliary verbs. B) Semantic verbs. C) Full/Lexical verbs. D) Primary verbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantic verbs. 13. Select the sentence with a nonfinite verb. A) My little brother 'wants' to be an actor. B) She 'opened' the door. C) The dog 'wagged' its tail to show its happiness. D) She worked hard 'to pass' the test. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She worked hard 'to pass' the test. 14. A phrase or sentence that has more than one underlying structure A) Recursion. B) Generative grammar. C) Structural ambiguity. D) Deep structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structural ambiguity. 15. What does the term, variation mean? A) No change made to something. B) It means making one thing similar to another. C) Incorporating a number of different types or elements; to modify something in order to make it unique and/or fluent. D) This term has no relevance to Language Arts class; therefore, it has no real meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Incorporating a number of different types or elements; to modify something in order to make it unique and/or fluent. 16. The plane took off an hour late.off is a/an: A) Adverb. B) Preposition. C) Verb particle. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verb particle. 17. String firstName = Console.ReadLine();What does that? A) It reads from the console. B) It prints on the console on a new line. C) Nothing. D) It prints on the console on the same line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It reads from the console. 18. Which sentence demonstrates a change from passive to active voice? A) The book was read by Mary. $\rightarrow$ Mary read the book. B) Mary read the book. $\rightarrow$ The book was read by Mary. C) The book was read by Mary. $\rightarrow$ The book is being read by Mary. D) Mary read the book. $\rightarrow$ Mary is reading the book. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The book was read by Mary. $\rightarrow$ Mary read the book. 19. Examples of forms of modal auxiliary verbs (in order):nonnegative, uncontracted negative, contracted negative A) Mustn't, must, must not. B) Should, should not, shouldn't. C) Might not, might, mightn't. D) Could, couldn't, could not. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Should, should not, shouldn't. 20. What should you do if you encounter a syntax error while coding? A) Ignore the error and continue coding. B) Check your code for common mistakes like misspellings or incorrect punctuation. C) Delete all your code and start over. D) Restart your computer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Check your code for common mistakes like misspellings or incorrect punctuation. 21. Which word means "an attitude of a writer toward a subject or audience, generally conveyed through the choice of words" ? A) Point of view. B) Tone. C) Complex attitude. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 22. Decide what the tone of the following sentence is:The apple cider spilled to the kitchen floor, leaving a thick, sticky mess. A) Postive. B) Negative. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Negative. 23. The manner in which a writer puts a sentence together A) Tone. B) Diction. C) Connotation. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syntax. 24. $_{Pass the following sentence to passive voice.}$He wrote a book A) The book is wrote by he. B) The book was written by her. C) The book was written by him. D) The book was been written by she. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The book was written by him. 25. Which operator is used to concatenate two arrays in Java? A) +. B) ,. C) &. D) Arrays.concat(). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arrays.concat(). ← 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