Noun
Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.
That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThose who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds. Dorothy L. Sayers
The use of the high level language made each programmer a factor of 5 to 10 more productive in a coding sense and more concerned with the semantics than the syntax of modules. Fernando J. Corbató
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. Gordon W. Allport
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. Marilyn Hacker
Contrary to the foolish notion that syntax is immaterial, people optimize the way they express themselves, and so express themselves differently with different syntaxes. Erik Naggum
Philosophy is to be replaced by the logic of science -- that is to say, by the logical analysis of the concepts and sentences of the sciences, for the logic of science is nothing other than the logical syntax of the language of science. Rudolf Carnap