While traveling to the Canada from his home in Europe, Gunther often asks people, "Excuse me, can you please the time tell me?"
Even though people understand what he is asking and politely tell him the time, Gunther’s incorrect use of ________ threatens his attempts at communicating with others in a language that is foreign to him.
Syntax may be defined as the set of the principles, processes and rules of the structure of sentence. This includes the word order also while communicating in a language.
Gunther tries to communicate with people but he does not able to frame the words in the complete sentences. He places the word in the wrong order. Gunther's has used the incorrect use of syntax that decreases his attempt to communicate with the other's people.
Erikson theory of psychosocial development proposed 8 stages of development over the course of human lives. The sixth stage is known as Intimacy vs Isolation. This stage occurs between the ages of approximately 19 and 40 and the major conflict during this stage is on the formation of intimacy and relationship with others.