Example sentences for: syntax

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

  • In the sentence, She loves music better than me , the syntax gives the meaning She loves music better than she loves me; but a majority of listeners and readers, infected by Sinful Syntax, will today understand the sentence as She loves music better than I love it or ...better than I do.

  • You can hear as much in tapes of Stevens reading aloud; he is so intent on keeping an even, magisterial tone that he occasionally loses himself in the convoluted syntax on which Vendler expends such analytic energy.

  • The howlers in my collection that I most cherish, however, depend for their charm on skewed syntax.

  • But the picture's glory is its layered and intricate syntax.

  • Lee's syntax can be legitimately labeled Brechtian.


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