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    Syntax is the study of sentence structure and formation. It examines how words and phrases are arranged to form coherent sentences based on word order, agreement, and hierarchical structure. There are four main types of sentence structures: simple sentences with a subject-verb structure, compound sentences joined by conjunctions, complex sentences with dependent clauses, and compound-complex sentences with both dependent and independent clauses. Grammatical sentences conform to syntactic rules while ungrammatical sentences violate these rules. Parsing diagrams can represent the syntactic structure of sentences using branches to show how phrases relate hierarchically based on transformational rules.

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    Syntax is the study of sentence structure and formation. It examines how words and phrases are arranged to form coherent sentences based on word order, agreement, and hierarchical structure. There are four main types of sentence structures: simple sentences with a subject-verb structure, compound sentences joined by conjunctions, complex sentences with dependent clauses, and compound-complex sentences with both dependent and independent clauses. Grammatical sentences conform to syntactic rules while ungrammatical sentences violate these rules. Parsing diagrams can represent the syntactic structure of sentences using branches to show how phrases relate hierarchically based on transformational rules.

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    Syntax is the study of sentence structure and formation. It examines how words and phrases are arranged to form coherent sentences based on word order, agreement, and hierarchical structure. There are four main types of sentence structures: simple sentences with a subject-verb structure, compound sentences joined by conjunctions, complex sentences with dependent clauses, and compound-complex sentences with both dependent and independent clauses. Grammatical sentences conform to syntactic rules while ungrammatical sentences violate these rules. Parsing diagrams can represent the syntactic structure of sentences using branches to show how phrases relate hierarchically based on transformational rules.

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    Syntax is the study of sentence structure and formation. It examines how words and phrases are arranged to form coherent sentences based on word order, agreement, and hierarchical structure. There are four main types of sentence structures: simple sentences with a subject-verb structure, compound sentences joined by conjunctions, complex sentences with dependent clauses, and compound-complex sentences with both dependent and independent clauses. Grammatical sentences conform to syntactic rules while ungrammatical sentences violate these rules. Parsing diagrams can represent the syntactic structure of sentences using branches to show how phrases relate hierarchically based on transformational rules.

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    Definition syntax

     
     Syntax is the part of linguistics that studies the
    structure and formation of sentences. It explains
    how words and phrases are arranged to form
    coherent sentences. A sentence could make no
    sense and still be correct from the syntax point of
    view as long as words are in their appropriate
    spots and agree with each other.
     Syntax is a part of linguistics that is involved in
    the study of sentence structure. It is based on
    three elements of a sentence: word order, word
    agreement, and hierarchical structure of a
    sentence
    Syntaxtic stucture
     Types of Sentence Structures
     Types of sentences and their syntax modes include simple sentences,
    compound sentences, complex sentences, and compound-complex
    sentences. Compound sentences are two simple sentences joined by a
    conjunction. Complex sentences have dependent clauses, and
    compound-complex sentences have both types included.
     Simple sentence: Subject-verb structure ("The girl ran.")
     Compound sentence: Subject-verb-object-conjunction-subject-verb
    structure ("The girl ran the marathon, and her cousin did, too.")
     Complex sentence: Dependent clause-subject-verb-object structure
    ("Although they were tired after the marathon, the cousins decided to go
    to a celebration at the park.")
     Compound-complex sentence: Four clauses, dependent and
    independent structures ("Although they weren't fond of crowds, this was
    different, they decided, because of the common goal that had brought
    everyone together.")
    Gramatical and Ungramatical
    sentences
     In english and every languange, every sentence is a saquance
    of word, but not every sentence of words is a sentence.
    Sequance of words that conform to the rules of syntax are
    said to “Grammatical”, and hose that vioate of syntactic rules
    are called “Ungrammatical”.
     In other words, utterances (sentence) which are constructed
    approriately based on grammatical rules are normally called “
    Grammatical sentences” while utterances which are not
    constructed based on the grammatical rules are
    called”Ungrammatical sentences”
     In linguistics,an Ungrammatical sentence is normally marked
    with an astrisk (*)- sometimes two in front of it.
     EX:A).The boy kissed the girl (grammatical)
     The boy kissing the girl (ungrammatical)
    Transformational Rules

     For example:
     Sentence  Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase
     Verb Phrase  Verb + Noun Phrase
     Noun Phrase  Article + Noun Phrase
     Where in the above example,
     Means “it transform into”
     Verb phrase  “kicked the ball”
     Noun phrase  “ the boy” “the ball”
      
    parsing diagrams
     Where:
     Subject = “the boy” (article + noun)
     Verb = “kicked”
     Object = “the ball” (article + noun)

     The above structure is the basic syntactic structure for a


    sentence in the English language. As more complex sentences
    are considered, it is easy, by this method, to see how these
    different structures relate to each other, by further breaking
    down the branches of the structure. The syntax of the language
    contains the rules which govern the structure of phrases and
    how these can be joined together. The structures and
    associated rules vary from one language to another.
     Parsing diagrams are capable of representing not just one

    particular language’s grammar but are capable of representing


    any kind of grammar. For instance, they can be used to
    represent the rules of invented languages such as computer
    programming languages.
    THANK YOU!

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