syntactic
adjective
of or relating to syntax.
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
That is, commas, semicolons, and colons were plugged into a sentence in order to highlight, subordinate, or otherwise conduct its elements, connecting them syntactically.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 15, 2019
This is, after all, a franchise in which the most indelible character remains Yoda, the wee, far-out philosophizer with the tufted pate and syntactically distinct truth telling: “Wars not make one great.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 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 Washington Gladden
