syntactically
- a word derived from syntactic.
Example Sentences
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Another 15% of those surveyed say they use baby talk and 4% say they purposely use syntactically imperfect or grammatically incorrect phrases like “Whatchoo got dere?”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2022
Dwight D. Eisenhower was sometimes syntactically challenged when speaking extemporaneously, but he came to the presidency with experience wielding executive power — conducting coalition warfare — and sometimes his foggy sentences disguised his guile.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2021
The style is ornate and layered, syntactically complicated, and it sometimes preens right up to the edge of overwriting before pulling itself back with an arresting image or self-deflating observation.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
“Distribution” is a noun, and syntactically it belongs with “shipment,” also a noun, as an object of the preposition “for.”
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 17, 2017
Besides many such passages which are substantially alike but verbally or syntactically different, there are quite a number which are identical, word for word, and phrase for phrase.
From Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People by Gladden, Washington
