syntax
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Suddenly, they took on perfect grammar and syntax.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
"If someone looks closely, they can spot Russian syntax in these videos."
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
When rendering spoken words in print, it’s standard practice to delete the “uhs” and “ums” and “likes,” remove irrelevant false starts and silently correct the minor errors of grammar and syntax endemic to human speech.
From Salon ● Feb. 22, 2026
I would also hate it if a photo of me “disappeared” my hair or captured me from “underneath angles,” famously the worst angles, and goddammit, Trump has once again gifted us some incredible syntax here.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2025
Parallel syntax is just the Rule of One Variable applied to writing: if you want readers to appreciate some variable, manipulate the expression of that variable alone while keeping the rest of the language unchanged.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Early on, we are exposed to simple spoken words and syntaxes that are often not represented in writing.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2023
Sun also devised an “application programming interface” consisting of command names and syntaxes that programmers would use to communicate with the tools.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2020
Such a wide variety of shapes and syntaxes should feel disruptive.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2016
"Yes, he swims around most of the time in a sea of declensions, conjugations, and syntaxes, in Greek, Latin and English."
From A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
They have been inherited by C++ and Java, which have C-like syntaxes.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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The AP English Exam: Writing, Grammar, and Word Choice
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Write Makes Might: Words About Written Language
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Narrative Writing, List 1
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