syntax

[Syn·tax]

One of the hardest things about learning a new language is figuring out the syntax, or the basic rules for the way that words and phrases should be arranged in a sentence in order for it to make sense.

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Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

Noun
the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

Noun
studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

Noun
a systematic orderly arrangement


n.
Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

n.
That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.


Syntax

Syn"tax , n. [L. syntaxis, Gr. , fr. to put together in order; with + to put in order; cf. F. syntaxe. See Syn-, and Tactics.] 1. Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism. [Obs.]
They owe no other dependence to the first than what is common to the whole syntax of beings.
2. That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.

Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

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Usage Examples

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

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