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Syntactic Definition & Meaning

syntactic
adjective
  1. of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; "the syntactic rules of a language"

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What does syntactic mean?
of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; "the syntactic rules of a language"
What part of speech is syntactic?
Syntactic is an adjective.

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