00:01
So this question is asking us to identify the term that is defined by the basic sound units of a spoken language.
00:07
We're given four options, syntax, phonemes, morphemes, and grammar.
00:12
So right away, i want to hone in on syntax and grammar because they're more of the bigger picture type linguistic terms.
00:20
So syntax refers basically to sentence formulation.
00:28
Let me write that.
00:35
So basically, syntax uses words and phrasing.
00:38
And sometimes morphings in order to form sentences.
00:44
Grammar, on the other hand, is kind of a step farther back than syntax.
00:49
Grammar is basically all the rules, including that of syntax, of a language.
01:07
Leaving us with both phonemes and morphemes, which i think is what a lot of people get mixed up typically because of how alike they are in, i guess, sounding.
01:19
The way i like to remember it is by looking at the words and kind of having some sort of, i wouldn't consider it a mnemonic device, but just an easy way of remembering it.
01:31
So i guess some mnemonic devices in memory aid...