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syntax

noun as in arrangement

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The Academy noted the author's flowing syntax with long, winding sentences devoid of full stops that has become his signature.

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The lack of precision, like the tangled syntax, seems deliberate.

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“Fox” has the bones of a potboiler but is supported by the sinew of the author’s elegant structure and syntax.

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Forced to return to his traditional means of work using his memory and what he had decades of experience doing, he struggled to remember some of the syntax he coded with.

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Among birds, the Japanese tit offers the first experimental evidence for compositional syntax in any non-human species.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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