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NameDateCultural Literacy Worksheet: Syntax. Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability to understand the idioms, allusions, and informal content that create and constitute a culture. Here is a short reading from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch, E.D., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Please answer the accompanying questions.Syntax: The sequence in which words are put together to form sentences. In English, the usual sequence is subject, verb, and object. Syntactic languages, such as English, use word order to indicate word relationships. Inflected languages such as Greek and Latin, use word endings and other inflections to indicate relationships.What is syntax? What is usual order of syntax in an English sentence?What is an example of a syntactic language? How does this language use word order?What are two examples of inflected languages? How do inflected languages show relationships between words in a sentence?NameDateCultural Literacy Worksheet: Syntax. Cultural literacy is familiarity with and ability to understand the idioms, allusions, and informal content that create and constitute a culture. Here is a short reading from The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Hirsch, E.D., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil, New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Please answer the accompanying questions.Syntax: The sequence in which words are put together to form sentences. In English, the usual sequence is subject, verb, and object. Syntactic languages, such as English, use word order to indicate word relationships. Inflected languages such as Greek and Latin, use word endings and other inflections to indicate relationships.What is syntax? What is usual order of syntax in an English sentence?What is an example of a syntactic language? How does this language use word order?What are two examples of inflected languages? How do inflected languages show relationships between words in a sentence? ................
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