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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as syntactic.

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  • adjective syntactic, related to syntax

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  • adjective of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax

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Examples

  • Pairing the phrases gives each a force it would separately lack, and, as will be seen, this kind of syntactical equilibrium is utterly typical of Moulsworth's style throughout the poem.

    My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

  • '' She's actually taking the listener with her, unlike Rudd who tended to sort of put words out there, often with a kind of syntactical convolution, and you had to try to keep up with him, '' he says.

    The Age News Headlines 2010

  • It is somewhat reminiscent of Gertrude Stein, but where Stein's sentences break down syntactical sense, and in doing so paradoxically draw more attention to the sentence as sentence, as a unit of composition, Markus's approach simply breaks down the paragraph into its individual sentences without otherwise questioning their ultimate connections in an expository chain.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • These two sentences stand out in the "document" not so much for their content per se as for their legibility and syntactical coherence.

    Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files: Christopher Snyder 2011

  • Though initially less radical than the typographical play still to come, the use of boldtype and italics here still seems disruptive, even arbitrary, although, as with all the other graphic devices in this novel, they actually work in part to substitute for more conventional grammatical and syntactical markers.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • It is a set of conventions for representing the syntactical organisation of a written text and also for representing the variation in vocal pitch and rhythm appropriate to a spoken performance of the text … It shows how a piece of writing should ‘go’ in a spoken performance.

    Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

  • Though initially less radical than the typographical play still to come, the use of boldtype and italics here still seems disruptive, even arbitrary, although, as with all the other graphic devices in this novel, they actually work in part to substitute for more conventional grammatical and syntactical markers.

    January 2010 2010

  • Instead of presenting syntactical and logical relationships, punctuation reproduces the patterns of speech.

    Is This the Future of Punctuation Henry Hitchings 2011

  • Feelings though they are, with only a slight admixture of the most general considerations upon human destiny, the syntactical connection between part and part is perfectly clear, no contour is blurred.

    Literary Study 2009

  • The second set of phrases I list just happen to be a bad grammatical or syntactical construction.

    Think Progress » King On Deporting Haitians: ‘Don’t Deport Them But Don’t Give Them Temporary Protective Status’ 2010

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