Chapter 4 : Syntax
I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:
1. Syntax is a subfiedof linguisticsthatstudiesthe sentence structure
of language, including the combination of morphemes into words.
2.Grammatical sentences are formed following a set of syntactic rules.
3. Sentences are composedof sequence of words arranged in a simple linear
order,with one adding onto another followinga simplearithmeticlogic.
4.Universally found in the grammars of all human languages, syntactic
rulesthatcomprise the system of internalizedlinguisticknowledge of
a language speaker are known as linguistic competence.
5. The syntactic rules of any language are finite in number, but there
isno limitto the number of sentences nativespeakers of thatlanguage
are able to produce and comprehend.
In a complex sentence, the two clauses