syntactic
adjective
of or relating to syntax.
syntactical
-
a variation of
syntactic.
Example Sentences
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, who characterized Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose movement as one of “strenuous vagueness,” survived Antietam but might have expired straining to decipher Tuesday’s cascade of falsehoods, rudeness and syntactical tangles.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
We’re talking the simple linguistic point, whereby you can take a sentence and by the addition of a “no” or a “not” at the appropriate syntactical juncture, transform its meaning into its opposite.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 18, 2018
First, seemingly thrown by syntactical complexity, it suggests that I should replace “there in a” with “there is a,” a change that would be ungrammatical, but that still leaves me questioning my own stylistic choices.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2018
He now concluded that his seemingly senseless, extremely protracted efforts to align his sentences on the right side of Microsoft Word were in fact generating unusual syntactical constructions and strange word choices.
From The New Yorker ● May 3, 2016
And learners were not only dissuaded, but strictly forbidden to go beyond the limits set them in the etymological and syntactical rules of the authors to whom they were referred.
From Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. by William Stevens Balch
