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syntactic

Dealing with language rules (syntax). See syntax.
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In English, we may call on persona or enjambment or slippery pronouns to puzzle out who the real subjects of our poems might be, but the capacity to do this on such a basic syntactical level is a gift.
Such linguistic and syntactical differences between Hindi (an Indian language) and English are briefly illustrated in Fig.
Wickens (1964), using this comparison to clarify the meaning of the text, shed light on some of its syntactical and semantic peculiarities, and evaluate the accuracy of the Arabic translation, pointing out cases where Jurjani clearly went astray (and often appealing to the Persian to explain why).
The thematic, syntactical and poetic functions of the word "Time" in both Sonnets 12 and 15 are strikingly similar.
The opening line illustrates Hardy's characteristic use of the repeated syntactical phrase.
Bradley holds a PhD in English literature and theory, and his understanding of the philosophical and syntactical purposes of language is clear in this novel.
There were syntactical surprises: the headmaster turned janitor in
Pragmatic factors alone cannot entirely explain the variability of the internal ordering of Latin noun phrases, she argues, and semantic and syntactical properties of the individual nouns are also in play.
The philological and syntactical discussion was insightful and representation of other scholars' views faithful.
The text repeats the syntactical pattern over the pages, the illustrator gives due prominence to the subject nouns.
The frustrating downside is the stunning number of syntactical errors.
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