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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a syntactical manner; as regards syntax; in conformity to syntax.

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  • adverb according to the rules of syntax

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  • adverb with respect to syntax

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Examples

  • Now that we’re conjugating verbs and increasing the vocabulary, it’s approaching free-for-all time where the teach just asks us questions and we do our best to answer in syntactically correct Spanish.

    Spanish Crash 2004

  • Given his syntactical conception of mathematics, even with the extra-mathematical application criterion, he would simply say that P, qua expression syntactically independent of PM, is not a proposition of

    Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics Rodych, Victor 2007

  • In Latin grammar, an adverbial phrase syntactically independent from the rest of the sentence and containing a noun or pronoun plus an adjunct, usually a participle or adjective, with both elements in the ablative case.

    Think Progress 2009

  • They is syntactically plural, as seen in the conjugation of bring.

    2009 September « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • I remember asking our teacher of Turkish to give me a tree structure of the sentences I could not make sense of syntactically, and when she did, and I am glad she was able to do it, things fell into place.

    X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • In grammar, a reflexive verb is a verb whose semantic agent and patient (typically represented syntactically by the subject and the direct object) are the same.

    Page 2 2009

  • In my experience, the dialogue that borders on tiring (which really isn't the right word -- I'd say challenging) is that which focuses on spelling words differently to highlight pronunciation (phonology) instead of taking the time to depict how a dialect is syntactically different.

    Angela Flournoy: On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books Angela Flournoy 2011

  • My family is syntactically singular in American English, as seen in the conjugation of stops.

    2009 September « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • In my experience, the dialogue that borders on tiring (which really isn't the right word -- I'd say challenging) is that which focuses on spelling words differently to highlight pronunciation (phonology) instead of taking the time to depict how a dialect is syntactically different.

    Angela Flournoy: On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books Angela Flournoy 2011

  • In my experience, the dialogue that borders on tiring (which really isn't the right word -- I'd say challenging) is that which focuses on spelling words differently to highlight pronunciation (phonology) instead of taking the time to depict how a dialect is syntactically different.

    Angela Flournoy: On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books Angela Flournoy 2011

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