The sentences "The dog bit the boy" and "The boy was bit by the dog" have the same meaning, but differ in:

a) syntax.
b) deep structure.
c) semantics.
d) morphology.


ANS: A, Syntax refers, in part, to the order in which words construct sentences. As you see in this example, there can be two different syntactically correct versions of the same sentence.

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