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syntactic

/sɪnˈtæktɪk/ adjective · British & US
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What does syntactic mean?

adjective

Relating to the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences, or concerned with the rules governing this arrangement. In linguistics, the study of the structure of sentences.

Example

"The syntactic structure of the sentence made it easy to understand."

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