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Syntax   /sˈɪntˌæks/   Listen
Syntax

noun
1.
The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences.  Synonyms: phrase structure, sentence structure.
2.
A systematic orderly arrangement.
3.
Studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences.



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"Syntax" Quotes from Famous Books



... is different but the syntax and phonemes are nearly identical. I'll speak it perfectly in a week. It's just a question of memorizing two or three thousand new words. Incidentally, Joe wants to know why you're digging up his bottom land. He was all set ...
— Blessed Are the Meek • G.C. Edmondson
... inflections and grammatical rules, which can be mastered only after a great deal of study. The people of the Roman provinces and the incoming barbarians naturally paid very little attention to the niceties of syntax and found easy ways of saying what they wished.[160] Yet several centuries elapsed after the German invasions before there was anything written in the language of conversation. So long as the uneducated could understand the correct Latin of the books when they heard it read or spoken, ...
— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson
... think I ought to have my pay raised. I joined the Maid of Salcombe to sail her, not to give you lessons in jography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, as it used to say in my lesson book when I ...
— The Ocean Cat's Paw - The Story of a Strange Cruise • George Manville Fenn
... academy made in a real grip of the French language was miraculous; but the knowledge it gained in French grammar and syntax was deplorable. A certain mid-term examination—the paper being set by a neighbouring vicar—produced awful results. The phrase, "How do you do, dear?" which ought, by all the rules of Stratford-atte-Bowe, to be translated by Comment vous portez-vous, ma chere? was rendered by most ...
— The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol • William J. Locke
... grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive[obs3]; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi[Lat]; Lindley Murray &c. (schoolbook) 542; correct style, philology &c. (language) ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


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