One day at the elementary school playground,Chuckie,the fifth-grade class clown,was making all the kids laugh by repeatedly saying,"Loud leaves linger on Lulu." Mr.Lavender,Chuckie's teacher,overheard Chuckie's nonsense sentence and pointed out that the sentence violated ____.
A) syntax rules
B) syntax and semantics rules
C) semantics rules
D) phonetic punctuation

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The sentence "Loud leaves linger on Lulu" makes grammatical sense (adhering to syntax rules), but it may not make logical sense in terms of meaning (violating semantics rules), as it's unclear how leaves can be loud or why they would linger on a person named Lulu.

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