How can you identify the surface structure of a sentence? ...

★ Grammar and Syntax

How can you identify the surface structure of a sentence?

A. By translating the sentence into another language.

B. By analyzing the grammatical components and their arrangement in the sentence.

C. By identifying the emotional tone of the sentence.

D. By counting the number of words in the sentence.

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Explain the role of a noun phrase in constituent structure.

A. A noun phrase only describes actions in a sentence.

B. A noun phrase can only appear at the end of a sentence.

C. A noun phrase acts as a subject or object in a sentence, providing essential information about entities involved.

D. A noun phrase is irrelevant to sentence structure.