syntax
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Since many schools have banned homework, kids while away their afternoons on social media where proper grammar and syntax are passé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
Sometimes, those bios slightly vary in their syntax or have been translated into different languages, but they tend to remain consistent in details like song and city names.
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2026
"If someone looks closely, they can spot Russian syntax in these videos."
From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026
Even the mystery she’s trying to unravel depends on correctly parsing the meaning of syntax and conjugation.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2026
When enough careful writers and speakers fail to do something that a pencil-and-paper analysis of syntax says they should, it may mean that it’s the pencil-and-paper analysis that is wrong, not the speakers and writers.
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 Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
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 Guy L. Steele
Vocabulary lists containing syntax
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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