You have learned that if you want to combine a noun such as girl with a verb such as run, the noun precedes the verb, and you must add an s to form girl runs. The rules that govern this kind of procedure are known as

a. semantics.
b. phonemics.
c. pragmatics.
d. syntax.


Ans: d

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