The System of Rules That Governs How We Combine Words

question 3

Multiple Choice

The system of rules that governs how we combine words to form phrases and sentences is called __________

• A) syntax.
• B) semantics.
• C) morphology.
• D) phonology.

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Definitions:

Dispersion

A measure of the spread of a distribution or the variability of data points around a central value.

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion of a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the data points are.

Percentile

A measure used in statistics to indicate the value below which a given percentage of observations in a group of observations falls.

Measures of Dispersion

Statistical indicators that describe the spread or variability of a data set.