sentence structure
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That sentence structure is popping up everywhere these days, and linguists tie its popularity to AI models.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
Unlike periods and commas, em dashes aren’t integral to sentence structure; they’re a considered choice that can, but by no means have to, take the place of commas, parentheses and semicolons.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2025
Even if the pathway to agreement involved diplomats’ spending years in locked rooms, arguing over sentence structure.
From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2024
Yet sentence structure is only one aspect of the complex, multipart system that is language.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023
Even when the sentence structure gets more complicated, a reader can handle the tree, because its geometry is mostly right-branching.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
