ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

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What do you mean by Syntax?
A
study of speech sounds
B
study of meaning of words
C
study of constructing sentence
D
constructing passage
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 the study of sentence formation; it is a system of categories and rules that allow words to form sentences. Grammatical sentences: the native speakers of a language judge them as possible utterances.

Detailed explanation-3: -Syntax refers to the formation of sentences and the associated grammatical rules (Foorman, et al., 2016 ). “Syntax skills help us understand how sentences work-the meanings behind word order, structure, and punctuation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition of ‘syntactic construction’ 1. a construction that has no bound forms among its immediate constituents. Compare morphologic construction. 2. any phrase or sentence.

Detailed explanation-5: -Syntax is the study of sentence structure, and of how sentence structure interacts with other dimensions of linguistic information, such as phonology, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics.

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