Which sentence has the most traditional syntax?

A) Stepping onto the sidewalk, her tears and breath were deep and drying.

B) She took a deep breath and stepped onto the sidewalk as her tears were drying.

C) Tears drying and a deep breath, she stepped onto the sidewalk.

D) With a deep drying breath, she stepped onto the sidewalk with tears.

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Brielle Waller

English

17 August, 10:11

Which sentence has the most traditional syntax?

A) Stepping onto the sidewalk, her tears and breath were deep and drying.

B) She took a deep breath and stepped onto the sidewalk as her tears were drying.

C) Tears drying and a deep breath, she stepped onto the sidewalk.

D) With a deep drying breath, she stepped onto the sidewalk with tears.

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Mara Yang · Answer 1

The correct answer is B) She took a deep breath and stepped onto the sidewalk as her tears were drying.

Syntax has to do with the way that words in a sentence are ordered. In English, the traditional order of words is S-V-O, which means Subject-Verb-Object. If you take a look at the examples above, you will see that only sentence B has this particular structure. The other examples do not start with the subject, but rather with some adverbial phrase.

Shyann Rowe · Answer 2

the reason why population expert feel like he was going crazy is : because he lost his census. Doing a consensus is extremely hard because it is really hard to get a correct and reliable data. Not only that, there are a lot of factors that needed to be considered for a person to make a decision and these decisions can change in a moment notice.