According to Chomsky,transformational rules allow us to:
A) translate words from a foreign language into our own
B) translate words from our language into a foreign one
C) convert surface structures into deep structures and back into surface structures
D) learn new grammatical rules of language

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Transformational rules help us to convert sentences from surface structures to deeper structures and back again. This allows us to understand the underlying grammatical rules of a language and make more complex sentences. Transformational rules are not related to translation between languages or learning new grammatical rules.

According to Chomsky,transformational Rules Allow Us To