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Eduncle posted an MCQ
October 16, 2019 • 18:08 pm 0 points
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In which of the following paired terms, the relationship between the active and passive forms of a sentence can be best established ?

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    Noam Chomsky coined and popularized the terms "deep structure" and "surface structure" in the early 1960s that further became important tools in the study of in the study of syntax in the tradition of transformational generative grammar as introduced by Chomsky. 
    For example, the sentence "He writes letter" and "Letter is written by him" mean roughly the same thing and use similar words. Some linguists, Chomsky in particular, have tried to account for this similarity by positing that these two sentences are distinct surface forms that derive from a common (or very similar) deep structure.
    In the first formulations of transformational grammar, active and passive pairs had identical deep structures. As the theory developed, it became necessary to mark whether a sentence was active or passive in the deep structure itself, with the result that active/passive pairs had almost-but-not-quite identical deep structures.

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