Syntax

=Syntax= Syntax is a publication that presents such rules whereby words or other elements of sentence structure are combined to form grammatical sentences.

"As this calamity fell among the passengers that were to be left here to plant, and were harvested ashore and made to drink water that the seamen might have the more beer, and one in his sickness desiring but a small can of beer, it was answered that if he were their own father he should have none ( From the Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford)."
 * Example:**

The author uses one sentence in contrast to splitting each phrase into seperate sentences.

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