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Syntax 101

So I wanted to pick up where I left off on the last post before Christmas, and talk about syntax and grammer a bit. " Fa meshsak sosha o kulntht to tisiks afshra pefsi. " This pancake is going from zero to sixty within five seconds. Or, more literally, This pancake is going from stop until sixty within five. We're going to break this sentence down and figure out how you can construct grammer and syntax. Syntax could be defined simply as how words are ordered in a sentence. In English, we describe nouns with adjectives, or tell what the noun is, like so: "the bright room," "the room was bright," "the smooth, round ball," "the ball was smooth and round." In the case of "the room was bright," the room is the subject, was is the verb, and the brightness is the object. English is a SVO language, meaning that the ordering of the subject, verb and object are respectively, first, second, and third. In an SOV language, the sen...