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[ adjective ] of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax
Synonyms Examples "the syntactic rules of a language" Used in print (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)From the point_of_view of syntactic analysis the head word in the statement is the predicator has broken , and from the point_of_view of meaning it would seem that the trouble centers in the breaking ; but dominant stress will be assigned to broken only in rather exceptional versions of the sentence . |
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