Sentence Structure: Analyzing the Placement of Interrogative Determiners Quiz

The interrogative determiner 'What' must immediately precede the noun phrase it modifies, 'shoe size.' Option B uses the correct word order: Determiner + Noun Phrase.

The syntactic rule for determiners (including interrogative determiners like which and whose) is that they precede the noun they specify.

This is false. 'Whose' is followed by a verb ('is'), meaning it is used as an interrogative pronoun, not a determiner (which must be followed by a noun).

The correct placement is Determiner ('Which') + Noun ('path'). Option C follows this correct syntax.

In A, 'Whose' is correctly placed before the noun 'pencil.' In D, 'Whose' is correctly placed before the noun 'keys.' C uses 'What' as a pronoun.

The entire phrase is 'kind of car,' but the core noun modified by 'What' is 'kind.' The determiner must be placed immediately before it.

Which' is correctly placed right before the noun it modifies, 'color.'

This is false. 'What' is followed by the verb 'is,' meaning it is acting as an interrogative pronoun (the subject), not a determiner.

Whose' is followed by a verb ('is'), meaning it is used incorrectly as a determiner. It should be 'Whose paper is on the floor?' if used as a determiner.

Interrogative determiners must be at the beginning of the question (not at the end) and must precede the noun, never a verb or coming after the noun.

Interrogative determiners always introduce the question and must be placed at the very start of the sentence before the noun they modify.

Whose' must be placed before the noun it modifies ('locker'). Option B uses the correct structure: Determiner + Noun + Verb.

This is true. 'What' is correctly placed immediately before the noun 'movie' it modifies, functioning as an interrogative determiner.

An interrogative determiner's role is to modify a noun, so it must be immediately followed by the noun it specifies (e.g., Which item, Which person).

A correctly uses 'Whose' before the noun 'shoes.' C correctly uses 'Which' before the noun 'kind.' B and D use the wrong word order/wrong part of speech.

The determiner and its noun must form a cohesive unit at the start of the question before the auxiliary verb or main verb begins.

What' is used here as a pronoun, standing in for the specific information. If used as a determiner, the phrase would be 'What address is yours?'

This is true. The interrogative determiner and the noun it modifies must start the question clause (e.g., Whose book is this?).

Whose' is correctly placed as the interrogative determiner immediately before the noun 'umbrella.'

The error is the separation of the determiner from its noun. You must move the noun ('color') so it immediately follows the determiner ('What'), creating the correct phrase: 'What color'.