When Did the Birth Rate in Canada Show Its Sharpest

question 21

Multiple Choice

When did the birth rate in Canada show its sharpest drop?

• A)following the legalization of birth control
• B)following the legalization of abortion
• C)after World War II
• D)after the introduction of sterilization

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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

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Surface Structure

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