The misordered utterances 'Book read me' and 'Me TV see' indicate a difficulty with which linguistic domain?

• A. Semantics
• B. Syntax
• C. Morphology
• D. Pragmatics

Answer: (B)

This item tests how words are arranged to form grammatical sentences. The phrases show the same pieces—a noun, a verb, and pronouns—but the order isn’t what English uses to make a proper sentence. That mismatch points to a difficulty with syntax, which governs the rules for combining words into correct structures. Semantics would be about what the words mean, and while the meaning here is not clear due to the order, the issue at hand is the arrangement. Morphology would involve word forms, and pragmatics concerns language use in context, not the sentence structure itself.