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noun Grammar.

1.

a construction that has no bound forms among its immediate constituents. Compare morphologic construction.

2.

any phrase or sentence.

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"Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given language has as its goal the construction of a grammar that can be viewed as a device of some sort for producing the sentences of the language under analysis."

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