While traveling to the canada from his home in europe, gunther often asks people, "excuse me, can you 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.

The answer is syntax.

Explanation:

Syntax is described as the structure of a sentence which provides coherency. Alterations of syntax might sometimes be acceptable and clearly understood (such as the position of an adverb in a sentence, in English). However, it is variable in different languages, and this might create interference when communicating in a second language.

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