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Example sentences for: syntax

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The Rio Grande, the river in whose valley the capital lies, has been called the Great River in English, maybe partly because Spanish Grande suggests English Grand , but in fact Rio Grande means simply Big River . Great River would be Gran Rio . (That tricky syntax again.)
Clue syntax deserves a more thorough examination than space permits; but perhaps it would be best to comment on some aspects of the ethics of compiling clues.
It left me with two systems of behavior, divided by syntax and tradition; two environments to consider, one becalmed in a long twilight of nineteenth-century religiosity; two codes of social behavior; much practical experience of the difference between a rule and a moral point.
As Carl Mills writes, linguistic competence includes knowledge of phonology and syntax but not semantics, a view of Leonard Bioomfield's that created many difficulties:
And in several of these random instances of pleonasm, truism, kinky syntax, malapropos metaphor, and just plain dumb things to say, I perceived the moroxonic spirit at work.