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The sentence, "Colorless ideas sleep furiously" has __________. a. proper syntax but poor semantics b. proper syntax and good semantics c. improper syntax and poor semantics d. improper syntax but good semantics

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Answer: a

Proper Syntax but poor Semantic.

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This state Colorless green ideas sleep furiously is a sentence by Noam Chomsky written in his book in the year 1957 titled Syntactic Structures. It is an example of a sentence that is correct grammatically but a nonsense semantically. Although the sentence is grammatically correct, it has no understandable meaning, thus it demonstrates the difference between syntax and semantics. As an example of a category mistake, it was used to show the inadequacies of certain grammar(probabilistic models of grammar) and the need for more structured models of grammar.

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