syntax

Amid the fresh scholarship of recent years—the microanalysis of quill strokes, the algorithmic scrutiny of syntax—Mr. Swift’s contribution, and it’s a valuable one, is to tell the story of a building.

Above all, Mr. Zipperstein returns us from the grievance ledger to the pages where Roth fought his real fights, his struggles with syntax and structure.

The Academy noted the author's flowing syntax with long, winding sentences devoid of full stops that has become his signature.

The lack of precision, like the tangled syntax, seems deliberate.

“Fox” has the bones of a potboiler but is supported by the sinew of the author’s elegant structure and syntax.