At a church service, Bonzo jumps up and shouts, while hundreds of people scowl disapprovingly. Bonzo's language ____ is/are inappropriate here.

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Bonzo's language use is inappropriate in the context of the church service, which is a social situation that requires appropriate use of language to follow social norms and conventions. This falls under the branch of linguistics called pragmatics, which deals with language use in social contexts. Morphology (A) deals with the structure and form of words, while bound morphemes (B) are a type of morpheme that cannot stand alone and must be attached to another word to carry meaning. Syntax (C) is concerned with the rules governing the structure of sentences.

At a Church Service, Bonzo Jumps Up and Shouts, While