Example sentences for: syntactic

How can you use “syntactic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But grammar enters the picture here, too, and dictionaries are remiss in syntactic description of how the language works in comparison with what its words mean, how they are spelled and pronounced, and where they came from.

  • Homophony and, more commonly, near-homophony, in which different words or phrases sound exactly or nearly alike, can be just as problematic as syntactic ambiguity.

  • But I shall never risk any syntactic experiments on him.

  • There is increasingly a syntactic change in the use of the present perfect for the simple past, as in I have noticed that last year .

  • They are mistakes at sentence level rather than word level; prosodic rather than lexical mistakes; mistakes of stress, intonation, and syntactic segmenting: in effect, accentuating the wrong word or syllable, modulating the pitch incorrectly (a rising rather than falling tone, say, or a questioning rather than affirming tone), and pausing in the wrong place.


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