A core sentence, such as "The man rides the horse," can be changed into past tense ("The man rode the horse")or into a question ("Did the man ride the horse?"). This illustrates
A)the semantic differential.
B)transformation rules.
C)disjunctive conceptualization.
D)a morphological shift.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Transformation rules in linguistics refer to the operations that can be applied to a sentence to change its structure, such as turning a statement into a question or changing its tense, without altering its basic meaning.

A Core Sentence, Such as "The Man Rides the Horse