Syntax: Constituency Test and Structural Ambiguity

Question 1

IS THE PART OF GRAMMAR THAT
PERTAINS TO A SPEAKER’S KNOWLEDGE OF
SENTENCES AND THEIR STRUCTURES

THE WORD SYNTAX COMES FROM ANCIENT
GREEK: “COORDINATION” , WHICH CONSISTS OF SYN, “TOGETHER, “ AND TÁXIS,”AN ORDERING”.

Answer 1

SYNTAX

Question 2

English is A _______________language?

Answer 2

Subject-Verb-Object (SVO)

Question 3

are the natural groupings in a sentence

Answer 3

Constituents

Question 4

is a family of
expressions that can substitute for one
another without loss of grammaticality

Answer 4

SYNTACTIC CATEGORY