Discussion
The sentence "Blue Jeans wear false smiles" has correct _______ but incorrect ________.
Answer: D
The sentence 'Blue jeans wear false smiles' follows the rules of word order and grammar, so its syntax is correct, but the meaning is nonsense, since jeans cannot smile, so the semantics is incorrect. Phonemes and morphemes are both fine: the sounds are English and the words are real. A grammatical sentence with a silly meaning, such as Chomsky's 'Colourless green ideas sleep furiously', shows the same thing: syntax can be right while semantics is wrong. The answer is syntax; semantics.
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