Transformational grammar refers to rules used to
A)contrast prescriptive and descriptive grammar.
B)generate surface structures from deep structures.
C)interrelate bottom-up and top-down strategies to derive meaning.
D)analyze a sentence's classical concepts.

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Transformational grammar is concerned with generating surface structures from deep structures by using rules called transformations. These transformations take a sentence from one form to another while preserving its meaning.

Transformational Grammar Refers to Rules Used to