AP PSYCHOLOGY

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: -Phrase structure rules are a type of rewrite rule used to describe a given language’s syntax and are closely associated with the early stages of transformational grammar, proposed by Noam Chomsky in 1957.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most basic syntax follows a subject + verb + direct object formula. That is, “Jillian hit the ball.” Syntax allows us to understand that we wouldn’t write, “Hit Jillian the ball.” The real joy in syntax comes with the ability to compose sentences in a variety of different ways.

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: -Syntax refers to the way in which words are arranged to make phrases and sentences.