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Topic 5 Syntax Pre-reading questions: Study the following sentences and pick out those incorrect sentences. 1. The boy found the ball. 2. The boy found quickly. 3. The boy found in the house. 4. The boy found the ball in the house. 6. Zack believes Robert to be a gentleman. 7. Zack believes to be a gentleman. 8. Zack wants Robert to be a gentleman. Definition of Syntax Syntax is a subfield that studies the sentence structure of language. 1. Syntax as a system of rules the syntactic rules Functions of Syntactic Rules 1) the grammaticality of sentences The green colorless cloud sl