After incurring brain damage, some patients develop language problems. Such patients often cannot tell that the sentence "Tom hit Sally" expresses the same idea as the sentence "Sally was hit by Tom." Apparently, these patients lack an understanding of some of the rules about how words combine with each other in sentences. This shows that these patients have ____
a. ?no grammar
b. ?impaired syntax
c. ?impaired phoneme comprehension
d. ?an impaired language acquisition device
ANSWER:
b
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