Roxanne’s Italian teacher was talking about how adjectives are placed after the noun, unlike in English. The teacher is instructing the students in the __________ of Italian.

Syntax is the set of rules for arranging words in sentences, including the usual order of adjectives and nouns. The teacher is explaining that Italian adjectives generally follow the noun, so the lesson concerns the syntax of Italian. Semantics concerns meaning, morphemes are meaningful word parts, and phonemes are speech sounds.

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