Syntax from Scratch

In other subjects, you may be dealing with questions such as "What is language?", "What is culture?", and the like.


Here, we are going to deal with another aspect of language: syntax.


If you look it up in the dictionary, you will find definitions like:

syntax
noun [ U ]specialized 
the grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence:
The examples should always illustrate correct syntax.
The president's tortured syntax was often satirized.
(https://dictionary.cambridge.org)



syntax: noun

[uncountable]
(linguistics) the way that words and phrases are put together to form sentences in a language; the rules of grammar for this

COMPARE morphology(https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/)



syntax
NOUN
UNCOUNTABLE
LINGUISTICS
the rules about how words are arranged and connected to make phrases and sentences(https://www.macmillandictionary.com/)

So we can say that syntax is that part of grammar which deals with the structure of the sentence.

When you study syntax, you will learn  how to classify words, how those words combine to make phrases and clauses, and how those phrases and clauses combine to make sentences.