AP PSYCHOLOGY

COGNITION

THINKING AND LANGUAGE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A language’s ____ is the way in which words are arranged to make phrases or sentecnes.
A
syntax
B
semantics
C
grammar
D
spellling
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -syntax, the arrangement of words in sentences, clauses, and phrases, and the study of the formation of sentences and the relationship of their component parts.

Detailed explanation-2: -Syntax is a term used by linguists to describe a set of principles and rules that govern sentence structure and word order in a particular language. In English, the general rule of syntax follows the subject-verb-object rule.

Detailed explanation-3: -In linguistics, “syntax” refers to the rules that govern the ways in which words combine to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. The term “syntax” comes from the Greek, meaning “arrange together.” The term is also used to mean the study of the syntactic properties of a language.

Detailed explanation-4: -In theories of syntax, a phrase is any group of words, or sometimes a single word, which plays a particular role within the syntactic structure of a sentence.

Detailed explanation-5: -4 Syntax Syntax is the study of the part of the human linguistic system that determines how sentences are put together out of words. Syntactic rules in a grammar account for the grammaticality of sentences, and the ordering of words and morphemes.

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