This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Syntax > Syntax – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Syntax Quiz 4 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Variables can be changedTrue or False? A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. (Passage #3) What is the overall tone of this excerpt? A) Happy. B) Sympathetic. C) Respectful. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Respectful. 3. Contains two independent clauses joined by acoordinating conjunction or by a semicolon. A) Compound. B) Simple. C) Cumulative. D) Periodic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound. 4. Stylistic device in which several coordinating CONJUNCTIONS are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. A) Asyndeton. B) Ellipsis. C) Polysyndeton. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polysyndeton. 5. John Backus is important to us because A) He argued against the idea of context-free grammars. B) He introducing a formal language description notation, BNF. C) He describing ALGOL 58. D) He invented Fortran the first programming language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He introducing a formal language description notation, BNF. 6. Contains two or more independent clausesand one or more subordinate clauses. A) Complex. B) Compound. C) Compound-complex. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compound-complex. 7. A particular opinion or attitude expressed. A) Voice. B) Diction. C) Syntax. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice. 8. I helped him because I liked him. Because is a/an ..... A) Noun. B) Noun verb. C) Conjuction. D) Preposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conjuction. 9. The "Sentence Core" refers to the primary ..... (s) and ..... (s) of a sentence. A) Adjective and verb. B) Verb and adverb. C) Adjective and noun. D) Noun and verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noun and verb. 10. Choose correct way to declare variable in PHP A) Var=1;. B) $ var = 1;. C) Define("var", 1);. D) $ 100var=1;. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $ var = 1;. 11. A data type which is typical in form and make use of digits and a decimal point A) Integer. B) Float. C) Char. D) Boolean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Float. 12. I enjoy eating [at] Quang AnhIdentify type of speech in the bracket A) Preposition. B) Interjection. C) Pronoun. D) Article. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Preposition. 13. Which of the followings is Java code that starts from the main() method as a mandatory part of every program A) Public void static main(String args []). B) Public void main static (args[] String). C) Public static void main (String args[]). D) Public static void main [String [] Args]. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Public static void main (String args[]). 14. To generate structures turn into recognizable English sentence we need ..... ? A) Transformational rules. B) Lexical rules. C) Structural ambiguity. D) Surface structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lexical rules. 15. When forming the structure "The man who is tall, " which principle or operation ensures that "who is tall" is correctly attached to "The man" ? A) Economy. B) Merge. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Merge. 16. Which sentence is an example of direct speech? A) He said that he was tired. B) He said, 'I am tired.'. C) He was tired, he said. D) He told me he was tired. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He said, 'I am tired.'. 17. If you change the position of even one word, it's possible to change the meaning of the entire sentence. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. Complete the sentence with the coordinating conjunction that make sense.It was a scorching day, ..... we still did our best to cope. A) Or. B) So. C) Nor. D) Yet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yet. 19. Includes numbers and booleans A) Data types. B) Whitespace. C) Modulo. D) Comments. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Data types. 20. EX:And Joshua, and all of Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had. A) Asyndeton. B) Ellipsis. C) Polysyndeton. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polysyndeton. 21. Altae moenia Romae A) Rome's high walls. B) The deep sea of Rome. C) The walls of high Rome. D) The old meaning of Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The walls of high Rome. 22. Classify each word in the sentence according to the categories:N (noun), V (verb), A (adjective), P (preposition), DET for (determiner), PRN (pronoun), AUX (auxiliary)Some people like cats. A) DET, N, V, N. B) PRN, N, V, N. C) A, N, V, N. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DET, N, V, N. 23. What is surface structure? A) Different between basic components. B) Different between words. C) Different between syntactic form. D) Different between stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Different between syntactic form. 24. Syntax is a/an ..... A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Pronoun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Noun. 25. The repetition of a word or phrase at the BEGINNING of successive clauses. A) Asyndeton. B) Ellipsis. C) Polysyndeton. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSyntax Quiz 1Syntax Quiz 2Syntax Quiz 3Syntax Quiz 5Syntax Quiz 6Syntax Quiz 7Syntax Quiz 8Syntax Quiz 9Syntax Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books