In a sentence
Six example sentences with syntax, each labelled with its topic.
The compiler rejected the file over a missing bracket, since its syntax rules allow no guessing about what you meant.
Technology
Latin poets could move a verb to the very end, and that freedom of syntax is impossible to translate cleanly.
Literature
Toddlers master syntax before anyone teaches it, putting the subject first and the object last without a single lesson.
Psychology
Logicians separate syntax from meaning, so a formula can be well formed and still say nothing true about the world.
Philosophy
A dispute over syntax cost a dairy millions, because a missing comma left the overtime clause open to two readings.
Law
Tonal harmony has its own syntax, and a chord that arrives out of order sounds as odd as a verb before its subject.
Music
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Found in these word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- Computer Science Word ListAuthoritative
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains syntax. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.