Until the 1920s,political Corruption Prevented the Development of Professional Police

question 48

True/False

Until the 1920s,political corruption prevented the development of professional police departments in most American cities.

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Transformational Grammar

A theory of grammar that considers the syntactic structures of language as being generated by a set of rules.

Deep Structure

In linguistics, the underlying syntactic structure or meaning of a sentence, as opposed to the surface structure which is how the sentence is expressed verbally.

Surface Structure

In linguistics, the term refers to the outward form of a sentence, which can vary without altering its deep structure or meaning.

Stroop Effect

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