Which of the following sentences follows Parataxis?
A. I came, I saw, I conquered.
B. I came, then I saw, I conquered.
C. I came, I saw and I conquered.
D. I came and I saw, then conquered
A. I came, I saw, I conquered.
Which of the following types of grammar is an example of this sentence? “I ain’t going nowhere.”
A. Generative Grammar
B. Prescriptive Grammar
C. Descriptive Grammar
D. Constructive Grammar
C. Descriptive Grammar
Which of the following group of words is a sentence fragment?
A. Justice is served.
B. Escalate the issue.
C. She shone.
D. Her nieces and nephews.
D. Her nieces and nephews.
Which of the following BEST exemplifies lexical ambiguity?
A. I saw bats.
B. Insurance salesmen are fighting people.
C. I woke up and saw ghosts.
D. We should be discussing violence on TV.
A. I saw bats.
Which of the following BEST exemplifies lexical ambiguity?
A. There is a fisherman near the bank.
B. Your money is in the bank.
C. The spoon is on the plate.
D. We should be discussing violence on TV.
A. There is a fisherman near the bank.
Which among the given sentences is NOT an example of hypotaxis?
A. Be proud and be bold.
B. I cried, I pleaded, I walked away.
C. I cried and pleaded.
D. Stop and walk away
B. I cried, I pleaded, I walked away.
Which describes a periodic sentence?
A. It suspends the conclusion of the sense at the end of the sentence.
B. It has syntactic units of equal lengths.
C. It is a basic pattern of antithetical inversion of the sentence.
D. It has a series of clauses extended from the independent clause.
A. It suspends the conclusion of the sense at the end of the sentence.
Which sentences uses “famish” correctly?
A. I could eat a horse; I am famished.
B. I felt too famished to dig in to my favorite food.
C. I’ll be famished by the next time you treat me.
D. I will bring a lot of blueberries; that’s a famish.
A. I could eat a horse; I am famished.
In which of the following sentences does the verb “be” (is) function as the copula?
A. Sherrie is annoying.
B. Lisa is going to swim.
C. Rayn is giving me a headache.
D. Max is writing letters.
A. Sherrie is annoying.
Which of the following is NOT a noun phrase?
A. those houses
B. are houses
C. two houses
D. old houses
B. are houses
