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After incurring brain damage, some patients develop language problems. Such patients often cannot tell that the sentence Tom hit Sally expresses the same idea as the sentence Sally was hit by Tom. Apparently, these patients lack an understanding of some of the rules about how words combine with each other in sentences. This shows that these patients have ____.
 
  a. no grammar
  b. impaired syntax
  c. impaired phoneme comprehension
  d. an impaired language acquisition device

Question 2

After being trampled by platform shoes at an Iggy concert, Buffy awakes in the hospital and says to a nurse, Watches playfully wrote pumpkins in the sky. This doesn't make sense because Buffy's speech violates the rules of ____.
 
  a. syntax
  b. phonemes
  c. morphemes
  d. semantics



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
d




kfurse

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
Gracias!


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
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