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syntax

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

The set of rules that governs how words are arranged to form grammatically correct sentences.

"Even a small error in syntax can make a sentence sound unnatural to a native speaker."

In linguistics, syntax is distinguished from morphology, which studies the structure of individual words rather than how they combine.