How To Use Syntactical In A Sentence
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Now, though, it appears that the music industry is setting out to make amends for its many syntactical sins.
Times, Sunday Times
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In secondary school and junior college, I did pretty well at English, despite having little to no theoretical understanding of the syntactical aspects of the language.
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It is a set of conventions for representing the syntactical organisation of a written text and also for representing the variation in vocal pitch and rhythm appropriate to a spoken performance of the text … It shows how a piece of writing should ‘go’ in a spoken performance.
Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
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I'm sure that I could never have written such a neat bit of syntactical plotting.
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Logophoric pronouns are semantically stronger than regular pronouns in that syntactically, they usually require to be bound in a local domain, and semantically, they are canonically referentially dependent.
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If the syntactical principles that inform its decoration are linked to those seen on cups and amphoras, does that imply that it functioned in similar ways and also was used in similar contexts?
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She also imposes tactful punctuation on the poems, a not inconsiderable achievement given the syntactical difficulties they sometimes pose.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The computer system could be programmed to require that Lana produce complete syntactically ordered strings of lexigrams arranged according to certain simple combinatorial rules.
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Thus no syntactically correct program in our restricted version occam can contain an execution error.
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Note the semeiotics, if you will: English uses alphabetical characters, uniform and mechanical, meaningless in themselves, meaningful only when combined in words; Japanese uses ideographs, scripted and lyrical, meaningful in themselves but sometimes also conveying a higher meaning when combined together; the square-code language uses geometric designs, intentionally mechanical, yet undeniably aesthetic, meaningful in themselves but presumably not combined syntactically (from item to item) in commerce.
Probing the Psyche of the Information Age: Repella.net (A Digital Art Website Review)
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Though initially less radical than the typographical play still to come, the use of boldtype and italics here still seems disruptive, even arbitrary, although, as with all the other graphic devices in this novel, they actually work in part to substitute for more conventional grammatical and syntactical markers.
Experimental Fiction
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They discussed the neuroscientific and the behavioural, the syntactical and the imaginative, declared illiteracy to be utterly vanquishable, and showed why some teaching methodology works best.
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He has smoothed out a whole range of peculiar collocations and syntactical anomalies in order to make the translation flow.
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I believe there is an integrity that is lost when a piece chosen for exhibiting masterful writing skill is chopped down to mere syntactical proficiency and stripped of its essence.
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It is somewhat reminiscent of Gertrude Stein, but where Stein's sentences break down syntactical sense, and in doing so paradoxically draw more attention to the sentence as sentence, as a unit of composition, Markus's approach simply breaks down the paragraph into its individual sentences without otherwise questioning their ultimate connections in an expository chain.
Experimental Fiction
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The second set of phrases I list just happen to be a bad grammatical or syntactical construction.
Think Progress » King On Deporting Haitians: ‘Don’t Deport Them But Don’t Give Them Temporary Protective Status’
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Syntactically, it is singled out in Python by being named before the dot -- everything following the dot, method name, and left parenthesis is just an argument.
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Pairing the phrases gives each a force it would separately lack, and, as will be seen, this kind of syntactical equilibrium is utterly typical of Moulsworth's style throughout the poem.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
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Feelings though they are, with only a slight admixture of the most general considerations upon human destiny, the syntactical connection between part and part is perfectly clear, no contour is blurred.
Literary Study
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[Dr. Abate comments: Many of the culinary combinations are such, of course, because of their being loan translations from a Romance phrase (veal Florentine, steak tartare, etc.) or because they pick up the postpositive placement on the model of the French syntactical rules.]
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
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syntactically ill-formed
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That version can't be used predicatively: "This is big deal" might be the boast of a Russian who never mastered the English determiner system, but it's not something that a native speaker would say "to express contempt for something regarded as impressive by another person". idiomatic contempt aside, the anarthrous exclamatory fragment "big deal" is syntactically regular, in that there are lots of other adjective+noun combinations used in a similar way.
Language Log
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Punctuation has been entirely avoided in an attempt to counteract the possible interference of syntactical patterns with the transcription of speech.
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These two sentences stand out in the "document" not so much for their content per se as for their legibility and syntactical coherence.
Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files:
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In particular, it's interesting to see the emphasis on the electrification of speech and "braining" in Chinese, versus that of distance in "telephone" (which is itself related to telegraphy, technically, syntactically, and semantically) and numeric calculation (and practitioners thereof) for "computer".
Word meaning as a window into thought
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We have these subtle syntactical distinctions because they make subtle semantic distinctions.
Globe and Mail
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An optional tag type meant to syntactically differentiate between otherwise identical instantiations.
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It is a set of conventions for representing the syntactical organisation of a written text and also for representing the variation in vocal pitch and rhythm appropriate to a spoken performance of the text … It shows how a piece of writing should ‘go’ in a spoken performance.
Barriers to Reading Comprehension « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News
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The tetrameters are made to halt, by placing the strongest syntactical and rhetorical pauses within the short lines, while the strong rhymes chime out the line endings.
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In language, listeners build structure out of nouns, verbs and other syntactical elements.
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So, what you are noticing in your children’s SLA development are processes of early lexicalisation and later syntacticalisation entirely consistent with the principles of a lexical approach.
L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT
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All above all, the basic and secondary well as its syntactical functions get systematically set forth.
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Their utterances are syntactically simpler, contain a narrower range of semantic content, and less frequently refer outside the here-and-now.
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'' She's actually taking the listener with her, unlike Rudd who tended to sort of put words out there, often with a kind of syntactical convolution, and you had to try to keep up with him, '' he says.
The Age News Headlines
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As distractors, there were syntactical pitfalls and lexical changes.
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It's rather about their syntactical properties.
Times, Sunday Times
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Instead of presenting syntactical and logical relationships, punctuation reproduces the patterns of speech.
Is This the Future of Punctuation
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Where sentence completion is required, production of the derived form may be driven by various aspects of the linguistic context such as syntactical properties.
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I'd be surprised if you've even heard of this purported syntactical rule.
Times, Sunday Times
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The analysis will then be extended to resultative and depictive secondary predicates in sections 4 and 5, and will be compared to some of the syntactically based alternatives that have been proposed in the literature.
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It is sometimes possible to tell the difference between a specialist and a non-specialist by the ending: those who talk about syntactical structures or semantical problems or linguistical issues are hardly likely to be specialists in linguistics.
Archive 2007-04-01
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Wrapped in a letter-pressed, raffia cover, all the material is printed as is, with individual handwriting and unique syntactical quirks intact.
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We know this because 'that' doesn't satisfy syntactical tests for adjectives.
Times, Sunday Times
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The double emphasis on "yett" not only lends l. 70 a nice syntactical balance, but it also powerfully underscores both Moulsworth's sense of pain and her surprise that her pain continues to be so intense.
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
