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
Nguyen’s narrative style—restrained, spare, avoiding metaphor or the syntactical virtuosity on display in every paragraph of “The Sympathizer”—is well suited for portraying tentative states.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017
One says it, he writes, only to hear it said right back in the exact same form, with “no syntactical subterfuge, no variation”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 13, 2016
In addition to the syntactical and grammatical faux pas, the dull tone of the prose was also dissonant with my signature style, or so I would like to think.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2014
Is the syntactical parsing of a noun to be precisely the same as the etymological?
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
