syntactical
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7.6
- adjective
- /sɪnˈtæktɪkəl/
- Specialized
:
sintáctico
- Written feedback from the teachers also focused on mistakes in the students' writing, particularly syntactical elements.
- syntactical structure
- syntactical complexity
- syntactical errors
It will not have any new syntactical features, no new modules in the standard library, no new built in functions.
- It will not have any new syntactical features, no new modules in the standard library, no new built in functions.
Examples
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Natural language processing techniques allow the extraction of lexical, syntactical, and semantic information contained in the text.
Academic text (2017) -
The SPELT-P2 assesses a child's use of morphological and syntactical structures and pronouns.
Academic text (2014) -
Positive examples for the structure of the English language as well as for syntactical models.
Academic text (2004) -
And this is but a random list that says little about deep syntactical changes.
Academic text (1997) -
It was on syntactical problems in late Egyptian stories and love poems.
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Some are concerned primarily with improving the precision of the rules that govern the syntactical structure of their thought.
Academic text (1998) -
We are far from having standardized its grammatical and syntactical rules.
Academic text (1997) -
Many of Dickinson's poems have a syntactical complexity caused partially by the poet's apparent preference for rhythm over meaning.
Academic text (2006) -
It is a kind of grammatical and syntactical anomaly which is extremely difficult even for linguists to analyze and to explain.
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The teacher highlighted several syntactical errors in the students' essays that needed correcting.
Synonyms
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7.0
Relating to the order of words and groups of words in a sentence
About grammar and the rules of a language
About sentence patterns and how words are put together
How words or parts of a sentence join together
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word syntactical comes from Greek parts syn- meaning 'together' and taxis meaning 'arrangement', an idea you can also see in the word tactic. So syntactical is about how words are put together and ordered in a sentence, which is why it means following the rules of sentence structure.