Meaning & use
syntactic
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.
A note on using this word
Concerns sentence structure specifically, as distinct from semantics, which concerns meaning.
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