syntactical

/sin-ˈtak-tik How to pronounce syntactic (audio)/ (ame, mw)

syntactical — adjective

  • syntacticalpositive
  • more syntacticalcomparative
  • most syntacticalsuperlative

1. Connected with the way words are put together in sentences, or with the study of

1.形容詞C1
釋義

Connected with the way words are put together in sentences, or with the study of those patterns.

例句

Quinn checked the syntactical pattern before translating the old Greek sentence.

collocation: syntactical pattern

The teacher marked Rafael's answer wrong because of a syntactical mistake in word order.

collocation: syntactical mistake

同義詞
  • syntactic

    Same meaning, but this shorter form is far more common in modern linguistics writing.

  • grammatical

    Broader term that can include tense, agreement, punctuation, and other parts of grammar.

  • structural

    More general word for arrangement and organisation, not limited to language.

文法句型

syntactical + noun (e.g. rule, pattern, structure, error)

用法筆記

Common in academic or technical writing, and usually used about language analysis rather than everyday conversation. Distinguish it from broader 'grammatical', which can also cover tense, agreement, or punctuation, and note that most modern writers prefer the shorter variant 'syntactic'.

常見錯誤

❌The sentence has a syntactical error because one word is misspelled.
✅The sentence has a syntactical error because the words are in the wrong order.
💡Syntactical problems concern arrangement, not spelling.
❌Syntactical' means something different from 'syntactic.
✅Syntactical' and 'syntactic' mean the same thing, but 'syntactic' is more common today.
💡The longer form is mainly a stylistic variant.