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syntax (noun)

syntax /ˈsɪnˌtæks/ noun

syntax

/ˈsɪnˌtæks/

noun

Learner's definition of SYNTAX

[noncount] linguistics

: the way in which words are put together to form phrases, clauses, or sentences句法

“I saw that she a cookie ate” is an example of incorrect syntax.句子I saw that she a cookie ate是错误句法的例子。

BNC: 8280 COCA: 15676

syntax

noun

syn·tax ˈsin-ˌtaks

: the way in which linguistic elements (such as words) are put together to form constituents (such as phrases or clauses)

: the part of grammar dealing with this

: a connected or orderly system : harmonious arrangement of parts or elements

the syntax of classical architecture

: syntactics especially as dealing with the formal properties of languages or calculi

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Everyone has good days and bad days. Her syntax is sometimes a world unto itself. But George H.W. Bush occasionally sounded as though English were more foe than friend, and he was an astute president who managed complexity with skill and balance.

Jon Meacham, Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2008 Coming from a great distance and wholly unrelated to the Teutonic, Latin and Slav languages that fence it in, Hungarian has remained miraculously intact. Everything about the language is different, not only the words themselves, but the way they are formed, the syntax and grammar and above all the cast of mind that brought them into being.

Patrick Leigh Fermor, Between the Woods and the Water, 1986 “I saw that she a cookie ate” is an example of incorrect syntax.

Recent Examples on the Web In more recent years, as the expediency of social media brought casual flair to the niceties of grammar, syntax and punctuation, Fuhrmann was neither fussy nor pedantic.

Thomas Curwenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2022 The syntax is somewhat off because Maxwell is trying two rhetorical moves at once.

Guy Martin, Forbes, 30 June 2022 Then start the search again but from a different perspective, to see how slight shifts in syntax change your results.

Wired, 18 Aug. 2022 Many phishing emails no longer contain the egregious spelling or syntax errors that were once tell-tale signs of fraud.

Yec, Forbes, 16 Aug. 2022 The diction is matter-of-fact, the syntax conventional; the imagery is simple and bare-boned.

Donika Kelly, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2022 Her focus these days is making phone calls from her Berlin studio to record the syntax of war.

Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022 The Sullivan Law survived numerous legal challenges, but the die was cast when the Supreme Court unscrambled the ambiguous syntax of the Second Amendment in the favor of gun advocates.

Paul Moses, CNN, 30 June 2022 Activities like this, when carefully crafted, reinforce crucial vocabulary and math concepts while simultaneously familiarizing students with complex syntax that rarely appears in conversation.

Natalie Wexler, Forbes, 21 June 2022 See More

BNC: 8280 COCA: 15676

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