Meaning & use

syntactic

adjective·Advanced

Relating to the arrangement of words and phrases to form grammatically correct sentences.

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The sentence is syntactic nonsense even though every individual word is spelled correctly.

Children develop syntactic awareness gradually, learning which word orders sound natural.

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Concerns sentence structure specifically, as distinct from semantics, which concerns meaning.

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