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Example sentences for: syntax
How can you use “syntax” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
It combines the music video syntax of Trainspotting with the jokey nihilist bloodletting of Pulp Fiction . You're supposed to root for the hapless amateur crooks over the platoons of murderous professional ones, and to watch as, with farcical precision, the bad guys end up accidentally blowing one another away.
We who are in control of the media and therefore aware of the context in which unclear English is used, know what's going on (and therefore the meanings of the utterances used to describe it), while the vulgar (to use Berkeley's delightful expression for those with a shaky grasp of vocabulary and syntax who are therefore ill equipped to understand some particular bit of newspeak) are led to believe, when they fail to fathom what's going on, that the failure in comprehension is entirely their fault.
Syntax is all the money collected at church from sinners .
I'm all for Latin courses, but there's an easier way of building your English vocabulary then plowing through the intricacies of Latin morphology and syntax.
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.