syntax

Example Sentences

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"If someone looks closely, they can spot Russian syntax in these videos."

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2026

Rosalind Krauss’s “Passages in Modern Sculpture” offers a chapter on “a new syntax for sculpture.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

I would also hate it if a photo of me “disappeared” my hair or captured me from “underneath angles,” famously the worst angles, and goddammit, Trump has once again gifted us some incredible syntax here.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2025

I’d be the last to doubt that good writers are blessed with an innate dose of fluency with syntax and memory for words.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker