Regarding the syntactic behavior of prepositions and conjunctions in English, mark T for true and F for false.

(   ) In Despite the fact that the evidence was incomplete, the committee proceeded, despite functions as a preposition whose complement is the noun phrase headed by fact , while the that-clause is embedded within that noun phrase.

(   ) In Because the evidence was incomplete and because of the evidence was incomplete , because and because of are syntactically interchangeable causal connectors, since both can directly introduce finite clauses.

(   ) In Whereas the first proposal emphasizes access, the second emphasizes efficiency, whereas functions as a preposition because it establishes a contrastive relation between two propositions.

(   ) The expressions in case and in case of belong to the same syntactic category: both directly introduce finite subordinate clauses expressing precaution or contingency.


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