sentence structure
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According to Ms. Hazrat, Aristophanes’ dots were “the first nonalphabetical marks devoted to unlocking sentence structure and therefore enabling the performance of text.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The sentence structure hit its stride in the second half of 2025, with AlphaSense logging instances of this phrasing in company documents more than once a business day.
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
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
