adjective
- relating to or involving the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language
Usage: linguistics; grammar
Examples
- The student made several syntactical errors in her essay.
- Computer programmers must follow syntactical rules when writing code.
- The linguist analyzed the syntactical structure of ancient Greek.
- His syntactical knowledge helped him learn new languages quickly.
- The translation software struggled with complex syntactical patterns.
- She studied the syntactical differences between English and Spanish.