If you create a sentence and the noun and verb do not agree, you have a problem with syntax

When Lane was asked to participate in an information-gathering interview, he was nervous about what management was trying to find out about him. The interviewer could best put him at ease by:

A. Indicating that Lane should probably not say too much. B. Specifying the meeting's purpose and what is the expected outcome. C. Secretly telling Lane that this meeting is actually a performance review. D. Asking him first to discuss the performances of others.

Mary goes to the gym to exercise after work because she says her husband, John, comes home

late every night. John stays at work late because he says Mary works out every night anyway. Which principle of organizing and imposing structure is involved? A) patterning B) punctuating C) superimposing D) closure